After the traumatic birth of her daughter the 35-year-old took on both Nike and the US government before earning a shot at a record 10th Olympic medal on the track
Some mornings the car won’t start, the baby’s crying, the girl won’t eat her breakfast, the boy can’t remember where he left his shoes, and you forgot to sign the form you promised to bring in to the school last week. Some mornings the shower’s running cold, the baby’s got a temperature, the girl’s run out of clean shirts, the boy’s having a raging tantrum because someone knocked over his Lego tower, and all you want to do is crawl back to bed because the day’s just about beaten you already. Some mornings, I wonder if Allyson Felix has mornings like these.
You may have missed it in all the excitement, but late last Sunday, hours after Wales’ defeat to Italy in the Euros, Max Verstappen’s victory at the French Grand Prix, Matteo Berretini had beaten Cameron Norrie at Queen’s, Jon Rahm had won the US Open at Torrey Pines, and Ishant Sharma had dismissed Devon Conway in the final of the World Test Championship, an even better sports story was unfolding in front of a small crowd at Hayward’s Field, in Eugene, Oregon, where Allyson Felix was settling into the starting blocks for the final of the women’s 400m at the US Olympic trials.
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