TOKYO (AP) — Dalilah Muhammad is about to run her last race. For the two-time Olympic and two-time world champion — and former world-record holder in the 400-meter hurdles — it’s the right time and Tokyo is the right place.

“I don’t feel any nervousness and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing,” the 35-year-old American said Wednesday after qualifying fourth and advancing to Friday’s final at the track and field world championships.

“But I think it’s a good thing just knowing how to enjoy these moments.”

She wanted to step away a year ago at the Paris Olympics, but she failed to qualify from the U.S. trials, slowed by an Achilles injury that also troubled her in 2023.

“We had to take down the year,” she said of last season.

Femke Bol of the Netherlands led qualifiers for

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