Around the 1988 Olympics, sprinter Gail Devers was running slowly and getting sicker. She lost weight, lost hair, had headaches and skin sores, and at one point weighed just 79 pounds. She told her coach she wanted to quit, but he would not let her resign and said they would figure it out. After years of visiting doctors, she learned in 1990 that she had Graves’ disease. The radiation treatment left painful blisters on her feet, and she says doctors came close to amputating them. Two years later, in Barcelona, she won the Olympic 100 meters in a photo finish thought to be the closest ever. A coach who refuses to give up on you can be a picture of the God who never does.
