When she returned to the track for training, some 10 weeks after giving birth, simple exercises caused her pain, due to the surgery. “Research shows that racial bias in our maternal health care system includes things like providers spending less time with Black mothers, underestimating the pain of their Black patients, ignoring symptoms and dismissing complaints.” “We need to provide women of color with more support during their pregnancies,” Felix told the House Ways and Means Committee in 2019. “In my opinion, it’s not respectable.”) In late November 2018, Felix gave birth to her daughter, Camryn, seven weeks premature: she was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia-a potentially life-threatening, pregnancy-related condition more prevalent in African-American women, and required emergency C-section surgery.īoth mother and daughter, however, recovered, and Felix has turned her attention towards raising awareness for African-American maternal care. (“I wouldn’t want to win that way,” Felix told TIME in a May interview. (Felix now has six golds, three silver, one bronze medal Lewis owns nine golds and a silver).įelix’s record is even more remarkable given all the unexpected adversity she’s faced since the 2016 Rio Games, when she lost on Miller-Uido’s dive. Felix is also now tied with Carl Lewis for the most medals ever won by an American track and field athlete. With her finish, Felix passed Merlene Ottey of Jamaica as the most decorated female track and field athlete of all time. “It’s really hard for me, when I don’t win, to still have joy,” says Felix. This time, given her comeback story, the hardware in Tokyo felt almost golden. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic took silver with a time of 49.20 seconds and Felix finished with a time of 49.46 seconds Stephenie Ann McPherson of Jamaica finished fourth, in 49.61 seconds.) (Miller-Uido of the Bahamas defended her Olympic title here in Tokyo, winning the race in 48.36 seconds. She finally won 200-m gold in London, but in the 400-m in Rio, Felix was again the runner up Shauae Miller-Uido of the Bahamas dove across the finish line to eke out the win. Another silver in Beijing felt devastating.
In Athens in 2004, at age 18, she sobbed after finishing second in the 200-m. At the Olympics, individual races have caused Felix heartbreak.
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