This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gail Devers. It has been edited for length and clarity. I started running when I was 15. By the time I was in college, I was smashing records ...

She was considered one of the fastest women in the world. But, suddenly, Gail Devers was stopped in her tracks by her own body. “I was, as I say, on top of my game, headed to my first Olympic ...

After a nearly 30-year losing streak in the women's track and field 100-meter event, many are hoping the steak ends for the U.S., including the last Olympian to win the event, Gail Devers.

Gail Devers’s story is too remarkable to fit into a single introductory paragraph. The fastest version: elite Olympian comes ...

Gail Devers is a five-time Olympian and three-time gold medalist in track. She dropped to 79 pounds due to Graves' disease between the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. She won gold in '92 but was losing ...