"The world championship is not my ultimate goal, I am possibly looking towards some relays and like that." "I will compete at the US Trials," she said. However, with nothing left to prove, she is first concentrating on the US Olympic trials that take place in June. This year's World Athletics Championships are the first-ever to take place in the USA and running there, on a stage she has made her own, would mark a fitting end to Felix's career. I think everything happens for a reason and it has made me the person I am." "There's always things that I wish I could have done better or differently but when I look back I have no regrets. "I've had so many ups and downs along the way but I can't imagine my life without it," she said the day before the Golden Spike meet. She has 11 Olympic medals to her name - the most of any female track athlete in history - with seven of them gold, and is the all-time most decorated athlete in World Championships history with 18 medals.Īs she looks forward to the prospect of one last appearance at the World Championships this July in Oregon, she can also look back on an incredible career without a hint of regret. The last hurrah of an Olympic greatįelix is by any measurement a legend of her sport. Third place in Ostrava went to Italy's Vittoria Fontana who set a new personal best time of 22.97. The 36-year-old Felix, whose personal best of 21.69 was set in Eugene, Oregon in 2012, is in the beginning stages of a season that will mark her farewell from a sport she has dominated for over a decade. © 2023 JNews - Premium WordPress news & magazine theme by Jegtheme.The USA's Allyson Felix has come second in the women's 200m race of the Ostrava Golden Spike 2022, finishing in 22.78 behind Niger's Aminatou Seyni who posted a national record of 22.21.
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