Allyson Felix
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Apr
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but not for everyone.
And so for me, that was just, this happened over a course of time.
I ended up giving birth to my daughter and there was just, to me, it just felt like unacceptable.
It just felt like I couldn't stand by on that.
So I wrote that New York Times op-ed, shared what so many women before me had also, who were under NDAs, had gone through and
And, yeah, shared my truth.
And I think it was about two and a half weeks after that op-ed came out that Nike changed their policy along with many other companies today offering 18 months of maternal protection.
And, yeah, but terrifying, you know, really, really scary.
I feel like I felt like I had a lot to prove after that.
You know, it was almost like...
And going through that, I knew I wasn't done.
And I hated that I felt like they thought I was through, that now I was a mother, I needed to be on to something else.
I hated that I felt like I was being forced
in this narrative that I did not connect with.
I knew that I still could make it back to the Olympics.
I knew that I could still be the present mother that I wanted to be.
And so the idea that I could not, I felt like I couldn't make my own decision, that motivated me to say like, well, I wanna show the world that this is a possibility.
And also I wanna show my daughter that when it's her time to do whatever,
that you can absolutely do the things that the convictions of your heart and that you can do it fully in all the ways.
And so that was the big shift that I felt.
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