New US sprint star Melissa Jefferson-Wooden helped save her dad’s life when she was 17

Her biggest win of all might be that her father, Melvin, was on hand in Tokyo to watch her. The country’s brightest new sprint star donated stem cells from her bone marrow seven years ago when she was 17. It was to help her dad overcome a potentially deadly sickness in which the marrow doesn’t prod...

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