Devers injured her leg in training last week and had been training in Athens with it strapped.

CNN: Devers has to pull out of Olympics

Devers has won the world championship three times and finished second twice.

CNN: Devers has to pull out of Olympics

Gail Devers, who repeated in 1992 and 1996, and Wyomia Tyus, who won in 1964 and 1968, are the only other women to repeat as Olympic 100-meter champion.

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The latest failure continues Devers's unfortunate Olympic hurdles experience.

CNN: Devers has to pull out of Olympics

ATHENS, Greece -- Gail Devers, one of the greatest 100 meters hurdlers in the history of athletics, looks destined to end her long career without an Olympic medal in the event after pulling up in Sunday's first round with an injured calf.

CNN: Devers has to pull out of Olympics

He was a left-handed pitcher with no right hand who threw a no-hitter for the New York Yankees. (Jim Abbott.) He ran in the Olympic Games on prosthetic legs. (Oscar Pistorius.) She sprinted to an Olympic gold even though they once nearly amputated her feet. (Gail Devers.) You can't make up stories like those.

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