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VIDEO: Olympian Alysia Montaño announces pregnancy with witty post

Alysia Montaño, with the help of her husband and two-year-old daughter, announced that she's pregnant with her second child through a Twitter video.

Alysia Montano

American Alysia Montaño publicly announced that she is pregnant with her second child with a witty and athletics-related video on social media.

With the help of her husband and manager Louis, and the family’s first child, Linnea, the three lined up at the start line of a 400m track imitating a race scenario. Moments later, the three adorned race medals that read “Proud Papa!” “Pregnant” and “Big Sister.”

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The entire time, the theme song for the famous running film, Chariots of Fire, was playing in the background. The trio then posed for a photo with a sign that notes that the second child is expected in November 2017.

In 2014, Montaño raced at the United States Outdoor Track and Field Championships while eight months pregnant with Linnea. According to NBC Sports, the 31-year-old has no plans to race at the USATF Outdoor Championships this summer. She’s a six-time U.S. outdoor champion in the 800m and has raced once since last July, when she failed to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.

Montaño also finished second at the 2015 Pan Am Games in the women’s 800m losing out to Canadian Melissa Bishop, the current Canadian record holder and world championships silver medallist. She is often recognized for wearing a flower in her hair, which she notes in her Twitter bio, “Olympian with the flower in her hair.”

Because of other athletes’ doping violations, Montaño is in line to receive as many as two bronze medals from the outdoor world championships (2011 and 2013), adding to her bronze from the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

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