: World Athletics Championships: ‘Trailblazer’ Allyson Felix ends glittering career with bronze #IndiaNEWS Allyson Felix’s 19-year journey through major track and field championships finished in

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World Athletics Championships: ‘Trailblazer’ Allyson Felix ends glittering career with bronze #IndiaNEWS
Allyson Felix’s 19-year journey through major track and field championships finished in familiar fashion on Friday – with the trailblazing veteran basking in the glow of yet another medal.Nineteen years after first competing at her first World Athletics Championships in 2003 as a skinny teenage prodigy, the 36-year-old signed off with the 19th world championship medal of her career as the United States claimed bronze in the 4x400m mixed relay at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.It was not quite the perfectly scripted finale US fans had hoped for – US anchor leg runner Kennedy Simon was agonizingly reeled in down the home straight as the Dominican Republic’s quartet took gold and the Netherlands silver – but Felix herself was nevertheless all smiles as rivals lined up for photos with her after her final race in a major championships. What a race ð•)UHÛZ[šXØ[ˆ™X›XÈ

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