Gail Devers
In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect...To forget a friend is sad...Of all the animals...You cheat yourself when you don't do...It is the child's understanding that teaches...Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity...