With the 2024 Summer Olympics underway, Allyson Felix, the most decorated athlete in track and field history, says the other sport she would choose to compete in at the Games is gymnastics.
“It would have been gymnastics for sure,” she said. “You know, I ended up way too tall, way too long a place and not flexible. But in another lifetime, I think it would have been that.”
Felix, who is has retired from the sport, but is now in Paris to spectate the Games, spoke to PBS News’ Amna Nawaz about changing the narrative around mothers competing at the highest level.
Watch more of their conversation tonight during PBS News Hour.
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