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TOKYO – Allyson Felix won her 11th Olympic medal, making her America’s most decorated Olympian in athletics, surpassing the 10 medals won by Carl Lewis.
A stacked team of Sydney McLaughlin, Felix, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu won gold on Saturday night in the 4×400-meter relay, continuing an unbroken American winning streak since 1996.
The American team was full of luminaries, present and future. McLaughlin, who turned 22 on Saturday, and Muhammad, 31, joined forces after facing each other this week in the 400-meter hurdles final, a classic race in which McLaughlin edged Muhammad on the line to break his own world record. Mu, a 19-year-old phenomenon from New Jersey, had won the 800 meters with a dominant performance days earlier.
And of course there was Felix, the great lady of athletics from the United States, one day away from the bronze medal in the 400 meters. Felix, 35, said these would be her last Olympics and she made sure they were memorable.
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