Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee on overcoming adversity and winning gold | BBC News 

She’s been forgot. That’s why they are pushing this.

Deep 🙄

Same Flo-Jo, she married keysee.

Florence Griffith Joyner was an American track and field athlete who died in 1998, aged 38. Her cause of death was suffocation during a severe epileptic seizure while she was asleep. Her events were the 100 and 200 meters. She married 1984 Olympic triple jump champion Al Joyner, whom Griffith had first met at the 1980 Olympic Trials. Through her marriage to Joyner she was sister-in-law to track and field athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

I'm surprised you didn't say her parents must have raised her right.

@@ThomasFromTN Forgive me for being a little old fashioned. I believe that people can make a choice when they are on the national stage. It’s not a slight against to modern athletes because there are a lot that give back to their communities like Jackie Joyner Kersee. The biggest difference between her and them is that she doesn’t take center stage and promote herself in doing it. That is a person with class.

@@randyskillings5586 There were plenty of colorful characters from the Good Old Days who were capable of self-indulgence of great magnitude...where it simply was not a mechanism in place that pushed narratives about the seamy side of reality onto the front pages. There was an unwritten rule in the press that certain events simply were not to be reported - like Babe Ruth being chased through a moving train by a knife-wielding woman in hot pursuit, right through the car populated by traveling sports writers in tow. Paparrazi then was deployed by the teams and agencies to protect and control narratives...not to catch or even entice celebrities to make provocative statements or engage in provocative antics. Point being - My view is that "Old-Fashioned" can credibly be defined as "Whole Lotta Sh... Going On - That Was Simply Never Exposed As The Reality." And that is even not even countenancing the point - "Class" in the context in which you employ it is rightfully discerned as...subjective. Even more setting aside countenancing - Don't underestimate how proximate in our recollection of "Old Fashioned" we may happen to be...chronologically.

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The interviewer correctly quoted Sports Illustrated naming her as the greatest female athlete of 20th century. Yes, Jesse Owens is a great icon. However, he won four gold and not seven as you stated. And, of course, he is not a woman. Jackie won the heptathlon at two separate Olympics, plus many other golds and silvers at Olympics, World Championships and other games. She deserves the stated title by any measure.

@@kimh5566 You were 100% correct in your "correction" of the initial commenter's "mistated" facts on...well, on pretty much everything. (Misinformation - something yoiu don't often see "today in the world -full stop - that was never needed." My only question...did "@richardkent2014" strain a muscle (sports allusion) attempting to insinuate the issue of "diversity" into a context where one would scratch one's head insofar as comprehendin WHAT HAS THAT TO DO WITH THIS TOPIC, WHATSOEVER?

Didn’t you know that’s all that leftists care about? All that matters is skin color and homosexuality.

You mean cuz the interviewer is white? You are so pathetic.

No. Of course not.

Because BCC is extreme far left