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Gail Denvers
      Devers experienced the highlight of any
sprinter’s career, as she stood on the huge
platform in the giant stadium and received an
Olympic gold medal.
   Eighteen months earlier she wasn’t thinking
about running. She was hoping that she would
be able to walk again.
     Just four years earlier, in the summer of
1988, as Devers was training for the Olympic
Games, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, she
began to feel very tired all the time and failed to
make the Olympic finals.