In 2019, Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix broke Usain Bolt’s record for the most track-and-field world championship titles in history.
She did it 10 months after nearly dying from pregnancy complications and delivering her first child via C-section. Let that sink in.I always offer up this post-birth fact as a way of introducing the 38-year-old athlete to the rare person who isn’t familiar with her.
This particular accomplishment, perhaps more than any other, paints the clearest picture of the type of athlete—and woman—Felix is.
Her body, less than a year postpartum, would still be putting itself back together. And yet she showed up at the 4x400-meter mixed relay in Doha, Qatar, and snatched the record from the world’s fastest man.
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