USA's Gail Devers Claims 100m Gold In Tight Finish - Barcelona 1992 Olympics
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Gail Devers wins the gold medal in the women's 100m event at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.
The event was extremely close as 5 women finished within a space of 0.06 seconds to create a nail-biting finish.
A true champion, Yolanda Gail Devers' track success came after years of misdiagnosed health problems. The American failed to qualify for the 1988 South Korean Olympics games in Seoul due to symptoms of an enlarged thyroid caused by an undiagnosed condition. After suffering with severe headaches and blurred vision, Devers lost 23 pounds of body weight before finally being correctly diagnosed with Graves' disease in 1990. Two years of healthy training followed, enough to win gold at the Olympic Games in Barcelona.
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Gail Devers - truly a talented, class act - then and now. The pride of San Diego & Sweetwater High School!! She always brought it.
The 100m dash wasn't even her main event. She was a hurdler. Plus she had some sort of muscle disease. OMG!! A true champion.
Graves disease
She had the 100 hurdles won if she didn’t clear the last hurdle.
The main thing I remember bout this race is that the first five finishers all ran under 10.90. Very close.
Yea .
Best race
This was the very first Olympics that I attended at it was absolutely off the charts!! Being in that stadium was like nothing I had experienced before.
Gail Devers just held on for the gold medal. An elegant, stylish sprinter. Beautiful.
Watched her growing up and she is a true track phenom! I'm blessed my track runners have her to look up to. I call my youngest Gail Devers when she is on the track!
Ayanna Williams I know her and her daughter
Gail Devers is, she was the reason I started watching Women's Track & Field!🏆😍🍫💘
The glamour girl of women's athletics. A true champion too.
Nice. I love Gail Devers, and remember this race from way back when I was young. Fantastic finish.
Gail Devers is one of my favorites. Love her
Her starts were the stuff of legend.
God-awful use of music on these films. Commentary would be better, or just a clean feed of the crowd noise
Crowd Noise totally
Cheers
I agree wholeheartedly.
Yeah, why is this music here…
I actually happen to like the music.
Gail Devers was the greatest female track athlete of the 1990s, for me.
Gail Devers has a knack for winning very close races.
PimpThe478 Credit that to the BK lean
Yeah she really had a timely lean to.
@@Tejaye777 Gail is used to leaning coming off the last hurdle to finish, being a hurdler you start your lean earlier.
ever since Flojo I can't help but notice how beautiful the track and field women are.
Evelyn Ashford still G.O.A.T. tho!
They always have been
You just noticed? They've always been fine! It's a hard pressed toss up between female track runners and professional or ballet dancers, and gymnasts. All heck, they're all Beautiful! Check it Out! Ciao!!!
The music is absolutely fantastic.
Music, pls!?
Jamaica 🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇯🇲
Don't know about yall but there ain't nothing more beautiful and sexier than watching women sprinters!
Gail Devers and SAFP remind me of one another. SAFP and Devers had a similar explosive starts they also had pretty similar frames.
Well its all Gail here but Juliet Cuthbert second place from Jamaica executed a fine race.....Jamaica has always looked for a male or female to win the 100m at the Olympics but they had to wait until 2008 The Year of Delivery even Gail said it was the Jalympics nothing can be taken away from Jamaica now they have stood the test of time waiting patiently for their champions to emerge and it has started. We host the biggest High School championships in the World where athletes from all high schools emerge for Championship honours, all of today's dominating athletes emerged from this Championship held yearly this year its 104 years old....omg we waited so long Our time to REIGN now
DARIO VANHORN Enjoy it while it lasts...
ranhill you have stricter drug control methods. thus our reign will b a long one
Yeah if only we had Jamaica's we could start sneaking in more cheats like Campbell-Brown, Powell and Simpson.
this video is about Gail. you made it all about jamaica. lol
@@smoothnubian exactly
This is amazing! She actually went to my school when she was younger, and now she works there part time! So I almost get to see her everyday! This is also only because her daughter goes to my school.
My Idol❤️🙏🏽🔥💯
Gail Devers just stole show. She wasn't even among the favourites - Ottey, Torrence and Privalova were the big guns then. But she took her moment.
Truly, u was given a star from the heavens. What strength and determination. Great inspiration
Gail and that famous LEAN! ❤🎉
Beautiful.
That's how a race should be run, it means that everyone has trained so hard for that final, they are all 100th's of seconds apart 🎉
Amazing athlete. 😊 I've remembered watching these two AMAZING sistas, Gail Divers and Gwen Torrance. Black Excellence. ✊🏿✊🏿👏🏿👏🏿😊❤
America is a continent and Jamaica is the best. So yes America is always the best.
Loves me some Gail Devers.
Watching in 2024. 🎉
I remember telling my friends in middle school I was in love with Gail and they never knew who she was!! Lol 😂 They wanted TLC, SWV, Gina or Pam
😂👍
Gail Devers is absolutely awesome, one of the best…Great Win!!! I’m a HUGH track & field fan. Based on what I know, Merlene Ottey (I’m a BIG fan of) is the one that brought Jamaican FEMALE (Sprinters) to the forth-front. I believe she ran in 4 Olympic Games for Jamaica...Yeah, if only:-)
+Beck C. Actually she ran in 5 Olympics for Jamaica 1980 - 1996.
Cornell Stephenson, thanks a bunch for much a Very Important Correction. ..She is one of the GREAT track & field history makes.
+Cornell Stephenson Actually 6... She ran in Sydney in 2000... :)
She ran in the olympics from 1980 till 2004, so that's 7 games
Ok. Here is the summary: She ran 6 for her native country of Jamaica. In 02 became a citizen of Slovenia in 04 and represented them in (Athens) her 7th olympic appearance.
This channel has the best music.
Have to disagree i think 4 people won that race
So glad US won still
Gail Devers is the legend forever!☺
What a finish. Ten more metres and any one of the first five could have triumphed
tell me the name of the song please
Yeah, everybody was so happy for her when she won the race. I had never heard of her and during this era, it was Gwen and Ottey's disdain for each other. So Devers practically came out of nowhere, imo. After watching the movie on her life, she was apparently a track contender until graves disease got the best of her. Great comeback story though.
Gwen Torrence was a very good sprinter too, but on this day, it belonged to Gail.
I remember at Track meet she pulled up to the event I believe it was LA for Junior Olympics. She signed my shoes I used to run for a track team in San Diego named Mercury Track and Field.
the best Olympic final ever
Privalova my favorite ... if only she had a good start like usuall....it was hers
also Gwen .. i love her
It is still a great accomplishment, especially after what Gail Devers went through . It would have been a even greater accomplishment, if Gail would have won the 100m Hurdles at these same games.
From the angle, it seemed like Devers vs Cuthbert and Privalova vs Torrence and Ottey.
Music?
she went to my highschool, the ghetto of san diego looking pretty strong 💪
Name of music, please?
Favorite female sprinter ever...no doubt.
Gail who I love still...great woman and inspiration to a MAN!!!!!
Not the women. USA proved it at the games last year
what music is this?
whats with the loud music ?
I went2 high school w Nadine Faustin. I'm 2 years older. She was lightning. Great woman2.
I'm here4 Gail though
Merry X-mas and 2020 to all
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Name of music, please?
get her new book its a smoker
She was tough respect gail
who's this music from, in the barcelona 1992 nail bitting finish
FANTASTIC!!! Can someone tell me the name of the "song" with this wonderful race? Absolutely wonderful race. Thank you for posting.
What is the music name
What a woman!! 😎😎
1:01 one of the reasons you don't see coaches track side anymore. Great coach, but craved the spotlight. It' supposed to be about the athletes.
1st, she ran to him, not the other way around. 2nd, her coach was Bob kersee (if you are too young, or stupid, to not know who he is, look him up). 3rd. he didn't "crave the spotlight" since everyone, at the time, already knew who he was and what his reputation was as a coach. (See #2).
+Jessie Colt Of course I know exactly who he is, that's why I said what I did. Husband of Jakie Joyner, brother in law to FloJo, currently coaching Felix, Tarmoh, and Harper to name a few (if you don't know their first names, look it up.) And what does her running to him have to do with him hogging the camera, here and at other events? Or are you too young or too stupid to realize this wasn't the only time?
+Jessie Colt and to imply the spotlight wasn't craved because everyone already knew who he was is the conclusion of a complete simpleton.
ranhill (I'M NOT WRITING THIS FOR YOU BUT FOR THE PPL WHO READ YOUR COMMENT, SO THEY WON'T BE DECEIVED BY YOUR MISINFORMATION) I remember perfectly... Bobby was the one that helped Gail through her Graves disease and talked her into taking her beta blockers even though it stopped her from qualifying for trials, rules the committee later changed... He also picked her up in love when her feet were busted and bleeding, and she was shut in her house, much like he did that day. His exuberance is a testament to what they'd( ALL OF THEM) endured the year bf when they almost lost Gail! Bobby's a great coach and your sheer disdain is unfounded.
Ranhill: So what's the deal with football, basketball, gymnastics,, volleyball, figure skating, soccer, etc? Is it STILL just about the athlete.
TIGHT, TIGHT finish
Devers' performance worth 10.75 in still conditions - such a pity they didn't have a generous legal wind behind them.
I love this woman
Americal always is the best in fast running..
Should have been three 🥇 gold medals. Could not tell who won
Who else is here after watching her movie? 🖐️
Wouldn't have been as close, but not a good start for Gail. Gutted it out, though.
true. but isn't that like saying, it wouldn't have been as close if she wasn't so fast?
CHEETAH69
IMHO not really.
+pnutbutrncrackers actually yeah. this is a race. how are you gonna posit a scenario where an entire important part of a runner's race was taken out and suggest a new ending? Why not say, "The race would have been different if Gail didn't have feet?"
CHEETAH69
Because the point that you are missing is that something ATYPICAL happened in this race. Devers got off to a poorer start than usual. And this unusual element made the race closer than it normally would have been. Your suggested parallel about someone having no feet is really no parallel to the situation here at all (unless the feet fell off during one particular race).
+pnutbutrncrackers aaaaaahhhh. No. I misunderstood your initial statement. I thought you were saying "It wouldn't have been as close if she didn't have that good start."
Honestly. How can they hear the gun go off with all the music playing?
@HotMessMemories1 You ain’t never lied!
Tightest race ever. Photo finish with three runners
Merlene Ottey was capable of 10.74 if only...
+Khesanio Moon Yeah, in her early 30's at that.
+khesanio moon,ONLY IF merlene ottey had run more competitive 400m when she left university, she only competed in one,most of her opponents were running the event,she ran a lot of 330m&300m and 50.7 relay legs did the 100,200& 400m in uni(nebraska)pr 400m. 51.very low.these over distant races built up her strength to gain a bronze in Moscow 1980.but just too stubborn wouldn't compete in the 400m,and presently vcb is suffering from the same epidemic,ANTI 4 MY-LITIS.
+Maica Clarke thanks for letting us know Merlene Ottey record. I'm sure a lot of people would have been happy if they just gave her the win rather earning it.
Great comment. It seems as if that is the difference ( the true secret to track greatness is doing the dreaded 400) between the ones who make it to the top of the podium. If you go back to Bolt's interviews you see that he started to win when he started using it more. Asafa stays away from even the two and we all have seen his results.
Even Felix's 200 improved tremendously after stepping up to the four. But the four seems brutal.
Both her Olympic 100m golds 92 & 96 there was literally nothing in it.
I admired her
If drug testing didn't exist, we wouldn't know who Gail was.
88 and 92 Olympics were the Performance Enhanced Games. Never been clean since..
I love this race... our ladies did not win but it was great competition. I would like to meet all these ladies in one place. I have met Cuthbert already....would be great to meet Gwen Torrence...a real fierce competitor" I used to remember the actual times ...let me try to guess them 10.82, 10.83, 10.84 10.86, 10.87
Besides being great, I just always remember how after each victory she wouldbleap up and straddle coach, Bobby Kersey. I always wondered how his wife, Jackie Joyner Kersey felt about that. She was definitely secure in herself. Check it Out! Ciao!!!
Sorry I’m late.... really late but SHE WORKS AT MY SCHOOL!!!!!!
My name is rene hernandez we went to school together she was my friend i was her Mexican friend
name of the music
I always liked her
Watch Ben Johnson: 25 years later... Cause at the moment ...Jamaica has received a warning from WADDA for not carrying out the random drug testing on their athletes.
Respect
It's so amazing how back then "drive phase" did not exist! ROFL
Even on Flo Jo's 10.49 OR, she stood straight up out of the blocks. Could anyone imagine the times these women would've run if they had the training and technology we have today?!? They were beasts! 10.8 standing straight up out of the blocks with the acceleration (MV) stage starting like instantaneously and dying off by like 30M in!
She works at my school
but that THE song with the Yolanda be cool :(
Gail devers goes at Patrick elementary school
im looking for a jamaican woman running the 400 she was good in her time i cant find anything on her someone please help, her name was claudine williams. anyone know what happpend to her she just stopped running .
Gail Devers, Huh? She's A Worker At Patrick Elem. Now. I Know This Since I Go There.
America is the continent, and North America is part of that continent. Most folk refer wrongly to the United States as being America and Canada as being North America. They both are part of North America.
If it was 2.0 wind, the top 5 would all have run 10.7 max
Don't you have geography subject in high school? America refers to the whole land discovered or rediscovered by amerigos vispuchi and now called american continent which is divided as Latin america and north america where canada and u.s. of a. belongs. correct me if wrong.
I'm wondering if it was only Gail D taking part in the race. Bcaz noone else was introduced or anything. Not nice at all... :(
Ottey 5th here
Gail Devers doesn't care about a drive phase. I guess that is from hurdling where they have to be upright from the get go and be gunning.
Thought they were just gonna get down right there on the stairs.
Go USA
Omg she definitely gave a representation on what every black mom looked like in the 90's
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