Allyson Felix faces Olympic champs in likely Diamond League farewell; TV, stream info

Allyson Felix has few races left in her career, which makes her appearance at Thursday’s Diamond League stop in Rome, likely her last career race on that circuit, all the more special.

Felix, a 36-year-old in her farewell season, lines up against the reigning Olympic 100m, 200m and 400m champions in the marquee event of the meet, live on Peacock on Thursday from 2-4 p.m. ET. CNBC airs coverage Saturday from 1-3 p.m. ET.

Felix, a seven-time Olympic champion, is joined in the 200m field in Rome by Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah, who swept the 100m and 200m at the last two Olympics, and Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who won the 400m at the last two Olympics.

Starting with Felix, who won the last flat sprint of the 2012 London Games, this trio combined to win the last seven Olympic women’s flat sprint events.

Felix said Wednesday that it will “very likely” be her last Diamond League race. She plans on competing at the USATF Outdoor Championships in two weeks, and the world championships next month, both in Eugene, Oregon. She said she may focus on doing “a mixed relay or something like that” at worlds, should she make the U.S. team.

Worlds will not be her final event. She plans a race later this season that will “kind of culminate everything for me,” she said Wednesday.

Though Felix has called the 200m her “baby,” she shifted focus to the 400m over the last decade.

In Tokyo, she took individual bronze in the event. This year, she ranks fourth among Americans with a 50.71-second clocking last Sunday.

The top three at the USATF Outdoor Championships in two weeks make the world championships 400m team individually, and it’s expected the top eight will make the relay pool. Quanera Hayes, the Olympic Trials winner, has a bye onto