"Cada logro comienza con la decisión de
intentarlo."
Gail Devers
Yolanda Gail Devers
(Seattle, 19 de noviembre de 1966) es una atleta estadounidense especialista en
pruebas de velocidad y vallas que se proclamó dos veces campeona olímpica de
los 100 metros lisos, en Barcelona 1992 y Atlanta 1996, además de ganar un buen
número de medallas en campeonatos mundiales.
Yolanda Gail Devers
(born November 19, 1966) is a retired three-time Olympic champion in track and
field for the US Olympic Team. Devers was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew
up near National City, California and graduated from Sweetwater High School in
1984. Sweetwater's football and track stadium is named Gail Devers Stadium.
A young talent in the 100 m and 100 m hurdles,
Devers was in training for the 1988 Summer Olympics, started experiencing
health problems, suffering from among others migraine and vision loss. She
qualified for the Olympics 100 m hurdles, in which she was eliminated in the
semi-finals, but her health continued to deteriorate even further.
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