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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2011, file photo, Alysia Montano, of the United States, left, falls as she crosses the finish line in fourth place as Russia's Mariya Savinova, right, celebrates winning the Women's 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea. On Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, Montano walked off the track at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar, with a pair of bronze medals that were placed around her neck several years too late. The U.S. 800-meter runner who has stood up on behalf of every athlete who has ever kept off the medals stand by a doper finally got the third-place prizes she was robbed of at two straight worlds, back in 2011 and 2013.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Better late: Montano gets medals, but the fight goes on

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 27, 2019, file photo, Allyson Felix holds her daughter Camryn after running the women's 400-meter dash final at the U.S. Championships athletics meet in Des Moines, Iowa. A rebellion led by some of the sport's top runners, Allyson Felix, Kara Goucher and Alysia Montano, is helping change that, and two months after the U.S. women's soccer players stated their case for equal pay, women in athletics are finding footing on an equally important crusade. &quot;I feel like (my voice has been heard), and I feel like that only because of women coming together,&quot; Felix said in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Felix, other top stars, fight track’s pregnancy penalty

By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press