I had to like look at myself and like figure out like am I going to keep doing this like can I

dissect like every piece of my training like my lifting my nutrition like where is there space to grow

and I had to like see like am I going to do another four years like where nothing is guaranteed like how bad do you

want it?

Welcome to the Just Women Sports Podcast, where we talk to the biggest athletes in the world

about the untold stories behind their success.

I'm Kelly O'Hara, and my guest today is Allison Felix.

Allison Felix is the most decorated woman in American track and field history.

A nine-time Olympic medalist, she is the only female track and field athlete to ever win six Olympic goals.

Her 12 World Championship gold medals are also the most all time for any

track and field athlete. Off the track Allison was included in Times Most Influential People of 2020 for her work

advocating for better maternity leave protection for female athletes.

Allison, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to have you on.

One, you're our first track and field athlete on the show, which is awesome, but then also you're

just a legend and so much so that I actually had to draw myself a timeline of like your career like you know the old school ones that you do in middle school where it's on a shoot of paper timeline.

I've been at it for a while.

Yeah, but also so successful.

I was like, oh my God, there's so many medals here

and so many Olympics.

I need to see this visually because I'm a visual learner.

So it's pretty incredible and I'm really excited to get to talk to you about all that today.

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