Working motherhood isn’t always easy—especially in places like the United States that tend to provide a to parents. But at the , organizers have made specific accommodations to help athletes with children give their all without sacrificing the needs of their family. Indeed, seven-time Olympic champion Allyson Felix helped create the Games’s first-ever nursery this year in partnership with Pampers, recently that she’s already seen the impact of the project: “Athletes are making great use of it and are already asking when we will be able to expand the project and have an even larger family space.
” (For what it’s worth, the of Olympians have also been given the spotlight these last few weeks, with , , and among the social media stars of the Paris Games.) Of course, Felix, who shares with husband Kenneth Ferguson, is far from the only mom leaving her legacy on the Olympics. Below, find a roundup of seven Olympic moms who have brought their little ones Clarisse Agbégnénou This French judoka , who was on hand to see Agbégnénou take home a bronze medal last week.
“I won’t stop here,” Agbégnénou after her win, and clearly, neither will her legacy of setting an example for working mothers in France and around the world. “I want women athletes who follow me to feel free and legitimate, to break codes to change mentalities and change the rules. We can have a life as a woman and mother as well as champion at the same time,” she before her win.
Brooke F.