Allyson Felix: Lindsey Vonn and Serena Williams congratulate on their comeback

Like Vonn recently, the most decorated track and field athlete is also planning Comeback. The now 40-year-old ended her active career in 2022. She has eleven Olympic medals won: seven gold, three silver, one bronze. She is the most successful track and field athlete in the history of the Games, one of the most famous mothers who have successfully returned to active sport, a sports manager and an activist for women in sport and for social policy issues.

Icon for women in sports

Allyson Felix has hers in 2018 Daughter Camryn brought into the world. During the pregnancy it was too Dispute with your outfitter “Nike” came. She accused him of abandoning athletes when they become mothers. Felix changed sponsors, and Nike then adjusted its approach to expectant mothers. And Allyson Felix became an icon of women’s rights in sports.

Later she also founded her own shoe company “Saysh”. Back on the track, Felix qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo and won bronze (400 meters) and gold (4×400 meter relay) for the first time as a mother. At the end of her career, she won gold and bronze in the women’s and mixed relay at the 2022 World Championships.

Homecoming at the Olympic Games

Felix focused on her entrepreneurship. She got hers in 2024 Sohn Trey. And yet in the end the picture wasn’t round enough, as it seems now. Although she won seven Olympic gold medals, she never had the opportunity to compete on the big stage in front of a home crowd. So she now announced: She wants to go to the Olympic Games a sixth time. She calls it “Project Six,” “a love story with Los Angeles.” Felix and her long-time friend Trainer Bobby Kersee are therefore planning to start a full training program in October. Then she wants to qualify.

Lindsey Vonn likes this. And Felix receives applause from other mother-athletes: tennis player Serena Williamsthe recently retired runner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Prycethe speed skater Francesca Lollobrigidathe surfer Carissa Moore. For Felix it is more than “just” a sporting goal. “If a goal is both scary and exciting, you’re probably on the right track,” she says.