The opening ceremony of Chile’s first Pan American Games was not only a celebration of athletes, Indigenous peoples and poetry, but laid bare the politically divided country’s scars from the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 until 1990.

The 35-year-old mother breaks a tie for most decorated woman in Olympic track and field history, and matches Carl Lewis for most all-time among U.S. track and field athletes.