

I have given everything I have to running and for the first time I'm not sure if I have anything left to give," she added.įelix said she wanted to make her last season about joy. "I have so much gratitude for this sport that has changed my life. "As a little girl they called chicken legs, never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined I'd have a career like this," Felix wrote.

track and field athlete in history, announced on Instagram that she would retire at the end of the 2022 season.įelix, 36, has won 11 Olympic medals over the course of her career and has been competing in the Olympic Games since Athens in 2004. She said she'd run this season in honor of women, and "for a better future for my daughter."Īllyson Felix, the most decorated U.S.

Allyson Felix announced on Instagram that she would retire after the 2022 season.
