This Special Olympics sprinter put her cancer treatment on hold to compete. Then she won gold.

Posted Aug 2, 2015
A few months ago, in February, Olivia Quigley was diagnosed with breast cancer. The 24-year-old Quigley, a sprinter, talked with her doctors, ESPN and USA Today reported. She told them that even with the Stage 4 diagnosis, she was going to L.A. this summer, and that was basically that. “The doctors wanted to do my chemotherapy and surgery in July,” Quigley told USA Today. (Washington Post)

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