Life looks very different for 11-time U.S. champion Aliphine Tuliamuk four years after the Olympic Marathon Trials for Tokyo, where she became the first Black woman to win that event and secured a spot on her first Olympic team. When the Games were postponed to 2021 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuliamuk decided to use the delay to realize another dream: becoming a mother. She gave birth to daughter Zoe in January 2021 and competed in the Olympic marathon just seven months later while still breastfeeding.