American Nia Ali defied expectations when she raced to a silver medal in the 100-metre hurdles at the 2016 Rio Olympics barely a year after becoming a mother, and did it again when she won a world title after the birth of her second child.
Ali is now a mother of three and, armed with the world's fastest time this season, is favourite for gold at the World Championships."When I first did it, there weren't many sprinters, if any, who had , so it was a lot of mentions of 'career suicide,'" Ali told Reuters.
She gave birth to son Kenzo two months before the delayed Tokyo Olympics took place in July and August 2021, where her Canadian partner Andre De Grasse raced to gold in the 200m. "It's kept me in the sport so long because I have so many goals for myself and to leave any stone unturned would be doing an injustice.
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