Olympic gold medalist sprinter Evelyn Ashford may have left her daughter with her parents in Cutler Ridge, but that doesn’t mean she’s not thinking about 3-year-old Rayna Ashley Washington.

Ashford was fifth in the Olympic 100 meters at age 19, first at 27, second at 31, a semifinalist at 35. Her best Olympics might have come at age 23, but the U.S. boycotted those 1980 Games in Moscow.

I will be going to Atlanta, but to watch.” Ashford won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, running a then-Olympic record 10.97 seconds. That year, she ran her personal best of 10.76.