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It’s been two years since Allyson Felix debuted Saysh, a brand she co-founded with her brother Wes. In June 2021, Felix roused conversation when she made her fifth Olympic team wearing a shoe brand no one had heard of before. This followed her public split from previous shoe sponsor Nike in which Felix alleged that the brand wanted to make cuts to her pay following the birth of her daughter.
“I asked Nike to contractually guarantee that I wouldn’t be punished if I didn’t perform at my best in the months surrounding childbirth,” she wrote in a 2019 New York Times Op-Ed. Nike declined, she wrote.
Though Felix had other apparel sponsors leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, like Athleta, it seemed she would show up to her big return without a shoe sponsor. Until she debuted Saysh.
From there we all remember what happened: She earned a bronze medal in the…
