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Allyson Felix has revealed how losing to Jamaican rival Veronica Campbell Brown for the second consecutive Olympic games broke her.
Allyson Felix has dived deeper into the emotions she went through after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
The seven-time Olympic champion went into the Games looking forward to continuing her winning streak from the 2007 World Championships but it was not a good day in the office for her.
Allyson Felix had beaten her serial rival, Veronica Campbell Brown in 2007 but the tables turned in 2008, a moment she will always live to remember.
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'I was embarrassed to show my face' - American sprint legend Allyson Felix reveals the sorrow of missing gold in 2008
Allyson Felix has revealed the emotional turmoil of winning silver in the 2008 Olympics, feeling devastated and letting others down.
She locked horns with Campbell at the 2004 Olympic Games and the Jamaican emerged champion, now, this was a time to earn her first Olympic gold medal but the latter had better legs. Felix went on to finish second in the race.
In an interview with Guardian Sport earlier this year, Allyson Felix laid bare her emotions, revealing that she had worked so hard for that breakthrough moment and it never happened.
“For me, 2008 was just devastation. As an elite athlete, all you train for is that gold medal. I was also the favourite and there was a lot expected of me and I expected a lot for myself,” Felix revealed.
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“To fall short of that was really difficult. At that time in my life, I didn’t have the tools to figure out how to move forward. And so I definitely had a difficult time processing that.”
However, she still has a lot to cherish in her well-decorated career where she broke the 22-second barrier at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.
She revealed that it was one of the moments that she had worked hard for and when it finally came, some weight dropped off her shoulders.
“There are the moments that you have that payoff, and it feels great and you have a breakthrough,” Felix said.
“Breaking 22 seconds felt like a long time coming, as in my mind I thought it would have happened more quickly. It was years before it did happen, but when it did it was such a joyous and rewarding feeling.”
She added that racing in the 100m at the London 2012 Olympic Games remains the greatest achievement in Olympic history.
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She was known mainly for the 200m and going to run the 100m and get to the final where she finished fifth was something that came as a surprise to her too.
“That has always been such a challenging event, and I’m not a 100m runner. So to go to the Olympics and compete there in the final was such a huge personal achievement,” she said.
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