The United States women's team ran and won by 3.68 seconds.
What sounds short in time, in distance, marked her visible advantage over Poland and
made Allyson Felix the most decorated American athlete on the track, with eleven medals.
The last, gold, was achieved this Saturday with Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mul from the United States women's team.
They won in the 4x400 meter relay with 3 minutes and 16.85 seconds.
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Before Felix, who was born in Los Angeles and specialized in speed events, the record in American athletics was held by Carl Lewis.
The world record of 12 medals is held by Paavo Nurmi, from Finland.
Allyson Felix, from the United States, runs the women's 4 x 400-meter this Saturday.
"I feel at peace.
I went out, I had all the confidence in these amazing women.
I wanted to experience it for the last time, and it was special, ”Felix reacted after the competition, as reported by the AP agency.
"Never underestimate the power of your voice"
The tenth medal, a bronze one that she won on Friday, was her favorite, the athlete confessed on her Instagram account.
The premature birth of her daughter, Cammy, whom she gave birth to in 2019 after competing in four Olympic Games and winning nine medals - six gold and three silver - and the absence of sponsors after giving birth, made her consider retiring. .
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"They said to retire, that I was too old to compete, that I could not get my body in shape again, but here I am to prove them wrong," he
said in a video dedicated to his daughter that he shared before the race .
"Never underestimate the power of your voice," he stated.
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Felix has publicly denounced how pregnancy and motherhood affect the relationship of female athletes with sponsors and the high rates of black women dying in childbirth in the United States.
Allyson Felix with gold this Saturday: the 11th Olympic medal of his career.Getty Images
"These are some of my struggles, but I know you've been through your own," he said in his photo with the 10th medal.
In another, the most recent, she poses with her teammates and insists: "You are worthy of your dreams, keep going."
