Allyson Felix will get to take the ultimate victory lap this summer.
The 36-year-old announced on Wednesday that she will run one last track season, a season that will be focused on joy and celebration and connecting, not medals or times.
She's getting the opportunity not many professional athletes do: to go out on her own terms, to know that she's hearing the applause for the last time, that she's achieved everything in her sport she possibly could have.
"I have given everything I have to running and for the first time I’m not sure if I have anything left to give," she wrote in part on Instagram.