Gail Devers won the 60 meter hurdles at the Millrose Games yesterday. Yes, this is the same Gail Devers who is forty years old and delivered a child only 19 months ago. Devers posted the fastest time in the world this season, and was 0.12 seconds off of the United States record.

I honestly don’t see how this is possible. I’m not saying that Devers isn’t a phenomenal athlete, she definitely is, but at 40 she is also definitely past her prime. She shouldn’t be posting these times, it just isn’t the way the human body is supposed to work. She should have peaked in her early to mid twenties, not in her late thirties and forties.

And it isn’t as though Devers was facing a field of washed up people either. She was facing some of the worlds best and fastest. How did she win? My guess is simple. She has found the best concoction of steroids. I don’t care who you are, your body just isn’t supposed to do that at the age of 40. Especially since she just had a child.

I’m not saying that she can’t do it, but the layoff she had to have taken just to have the child is certainly a long time. I’m sure she also took off time to take care of the child when it was first born as well. What does that leave us? About a year long layoff for a 39-40 year old. And you’re telling me that she can win a competition like this? I’m sorry, I just don’t buy it.