US great Felix targets LA Olympics in comeback

Allyson Felix will be 42 at the start of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Allyson Felix, the most decorated woman in Olympic athletics history with 11 medals, says she is planning a comeback at the age of 40. The United States sprinter is targeting a sixth Olympics in 2028 in her home city of Los Angeles. Felix last competed at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene , and gave birth to her second child, a son, in 2024.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime homecoming," Felix said of her comeback. "And it is the only thing powerful enough to pull me back. " The most decorated American Olympian in athletics, Felix won her only solo gold in the 200m at London in 2012, but also topped the 4x400m relay podium at every Games between 2008 and the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games.

She also won 4x100m relay titles in 2012 and 2016, and took 200m silver in 2004 and 2008, along with 400m silver and bronze in Rio and Tokyo respectively. The LA native also won a record 20 medals at the World Championships, the most for any woman or man, including 14 titles. Felix, who also has a daughter born in 2018, attended the 2024 Paris Olympics as a spectator and said she experienced "mixed emotions".

"There were moments where I was like, 'Oh, this is so great. It's so exciting to be in the stands and on the other side,'" Felix told Time magazine , external . "And then there were moments where I was, 'You know, I miss this feeling'.