Carmelita Jeter: Winning Isnt Always About Coming in First, Sometimes Its About Finishing

Published: May 4, 2018, 1:12 a.m.

I caught up to the 2012 Olympic gold winner in the Women\u2019s 100 meter Carmelita Jeter at BPM\u2019Online\u2019s user conference, Accelerate, in Boston. And her being the fastest woman alive having run the second fastest 100 meters ever in women\u2019s history, that\u2019s the only way I would\u2019ve ever caught up to her\u2026\n\nAfter her conference keynote, I had the great pleasure of asking her a few questions about some of the obstacles she overcame in becoming the fastest woman alive, how the lessons of teamwork she learned as captain of the Olympic gold winning US women\u2019s relay team apply to the business world, and how she was able to win a bronze medal while running on a leg with a torn quad muscle.