![]() ![]() Athing Mu, 800m gold medalist and 400m collegiate record-holder, anchored the quartet home for gold, splitting a blistering 48.32. Felix, leg two, broke to the inside and held the gap in 49.38, passing off to 400m hurdles silver medalist and reigning world champion Dalilah Muhammad, who shot off like a rocket to close in 48.94. Sydney McLaughlin, 400m hurdles gold medalist and world record-holder, led off with a 50.21-second leg in lane seven to give the U.S. "I think that's all we want for women in the future – that's what I want for my daughter, and now she's going to have these amazing women to look up to as well." ![]() "I don't think I've ever been the fastest. I've never had the world record, but I've tried my best with what I had with character and integrity," she said after the race. Thirteen years later, in a finale of the ages, she wins her seventh gold in the same event she won her first – running the same leg – alongside two of the sport's young superstars. At her next Olympic appearance in Beijing, the Los Angeles native earned her first gold medal, repeating her silver in the 200m before running the second leg on Team USA's title-winning 4x400m relay. The 35-year-old mother made her Games debut in Athens at age 18, capturing a silver medal in the 200m. Olympic track and field athlete of all time. In a story fit for Hollywood, five-time Olympian Allyson Felix concluded her illustrious Olympic career Saturday in Tokyo by propelling a dream-team United States women's 4x400m relay squad to its seventh straight gold, claiming her 11th medal to surpass Carl Lewis as the most decorated U.S. ![]()
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