“I wanted to prove what women are capable of.”
And she did! Heptathlete Lindsey Flach (31) will take part in the US Trials – the elimination competitions for the Olympic Games – at the weekend, unless anything special. But one fact is quite remarkable: the American is not starting alone, she is 18 weeks pregnant!
With a baby bump, Flach completed the competition, which is also the last of her career!
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Background: The now 31-year-old actually wanted to end her career after the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and start a family. But the pandemic and the related postponement of the Olympics thwarted her plans – and she became pregnant even before she could even participate.
However, the athlete really wanted to say goodbye with a competition. “My main concern was to make sure that I and the baby are healthy,” says Flach, “Yahoo Sports”. Her pregnancy was “very hard” at the beginning: “I had bad nausea for about 12 weeks, which impaired my training.”
