Tokyo Olympics: Meet the moms who have qualified for the U.S. team

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Allyson Felix isn't the only mom competing in the Tokyo Olympics.

Serena Williams last won a Grand Slam title at the 2017 Australian Open, where she was eight weeks pregnant with daughterOlympia has yet to see her mother add to her 23 career Grand Slam singles titles . Serena has gone 0-4 in Grand Slam finals since making her return to competition in 2018.for most Olympic gold medals in tennis history.

Williams mathematically clinched a spot in Tokyo earlier this year, but she has not committed to competing at the Olympics. In May, sheAllyson Felix celebrates with her daughter Camryn after finishing second in the Women's 400 Meters Final on day three of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 20, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon.became the most decorated American woman in Olympic track & field history . Two years later, she became a mother.

At the Tokyo Games, Felix’s fifth Olympic appearance, she could tie or break the record for most medals won by an American track & field athlete. The current record is held byQuanera Hayes qualified for her first Olympic team by winning the women’s 400m at U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials and celebrated on the track with her son Demetrius.

Hayes gave birth to Demetrius in October 2018 and said returning to the track was a challenge. “Coming back, it was tough. It was like I had to learn how to run all over again. I couldn’t come out of [the blocks], my stride was different.”is from the Bahamas and baby Demetrius was visiting his grandparents when the island shut down to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“He was stuck in the Bahamas for four months,” she said. “I couldn’t get to him, they couldn’t get to me… It was the worst experience of my life. He was growing up and he was learning new stuff without me.”

 

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Can't believe the Games will go on. What lunacy!

The moms and real women participating in the Olympics games should walk away from their events in protest of transgender athletes.

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