Allyson Felix repeated Wednesday that August’s World Championships schedule “doesn’t allow” her to run the 200m and 400m, six days after her coach reportedly said the 200m-400m double was still a possibility.
Felix also said her coach, Bobby Kersee, would make his final decision on what her schedule will be for the World Championships (Aug. 22-30 in Beijing) after she races a 200m in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday. No woman has swept the 200m and 400m at a Worlds, though it’s been done by men and women at the Olympics.
Felix was also asked Wednesday if Kersee had, in an effort to seek flexibility in the Rio 2016 Olympic track and field schedule approved in November, reached out to the IAAF (track and field’s international governing body), the International Olympic Committee or Michael Johnson (who lobbied for a March 1996 change to the Atlanta 1996 Olympic schedule that increased the time between the men’s 200m and 400m at those Games).