‘She Runs the World’ Review: What Wappened When Nike Thought It Could Beat Track Star Allyson Felix

The protruding belly getting its closeup early in “She Runs the World” belongs to Allyson Felix, the world’s most decorated track star. It’s 2018, Felix is 32 and pregnant for the first time. In direct address, she talks about what she wants people to take away from her story — a story about starting a family during a stellar professional career and about the way the sports industry had made it hard for female athletes to choose parenting.

“I love when people say I can’t do something,” says Felix, her hair pulled up, her smile lucent. She is wearing a dark gray T-shirt with the word “Equality” embossed

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