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    Gail Devers

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    Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #alive #all things #anything #belief #believe

    It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #other #people #you

    I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #chest #get #i #nervous #now

    I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #any #athlete #became #because #brother

    I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #checked #fine #i #i do #levels

    I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #career #country #disappointment #gold #gold medals

    I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #disease #given #gland #graves #i

    It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #between #challenge #hurdle #me #won

    It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #actually #being #cities #different #enjoy

    Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. ↗


    — Gail Devers

    #back #believe #five #gone #i






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    On February 2 2007 at the age of 40 Devers edged 2004 Olympic champion Joanna Hayes to win the 60 m hurdles event at the Millrose Games in 7. Again both were awarded the same time but Devers was judged to have finiGail Deversd first and became the first woman to retain the Olympic 100 m title since Wyomia Tyus. See the race
    In 1993 Devers won the 100 m World Championship title after - again - a photo finish win over Merlene Ottey in an apparent dead heat and the 100 m hurdles title.

    The following year Gail Devers was elected into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. The photo finish showed Devers had narrowly beaten Jamaican Juliet Cuthbert. During her career Devers was notable for having exceptionally long heavily decorated fingernails.

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