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1st October 2019
04:43pm BST

"It was really special," she told NBC Sports. "It's been a crazy year for me, so just to be here to be running with this great team, I just feel so blessed."
"I'm just grateful to be healthy, to be working my way back. It feels good."
Felix gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Camryn, just 10 months ago.
The 33-year-old had experienced a difficult pregnancy suffering from severe preeclampsia. She also had to deliver her daughter prematurely.
After her win this week, Felix tweeted saying that her performance on the track was "for all my baby mamas."
She later added that she was "humbled" by the 12 gold medal win.
“I’ve had to fight a lot this year- for my health, for my daughter, for women & mothers, for what I deserve and for my fitness," she said.
20x20 is an ambitious two-year long initiative to better promote and champion women in sport.
With the tagline of "if she can't see it, she can't be it," the 20x20 movement has three targets to reach by 2020:
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