Flo jo biography on drug abuse
Flo jo biography on drug abuse
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Flojo Never Shook Drug Rumors -- Questions Still Persist Even After Her Death
Jackie Joyner-Kersee recently said her career's lowest moment came during the 1988 Seoul Olympics when she and her sister-in-law, Florence Griffith Joyner, were accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Brazilian half-miler Joaquim Cruz leveled the allegations after she won the heptathlon gold with a world-record score, saying publicly what many in track and field had whispered.
"I hope no other person achieves a great thing and has to deal with innuendo and accusations," Joyner-Kersee said.
While rumors faded for her, they never really ended for Griffith Joyner, not even after her death yesterday at her home in Mission Viejo, Calif.
She was 38.
The woman who transformed track and field for women with world records in the 100 meters and 200 meters continually had to defend herself from drug allegations because of one remarkable year.
"Her success ushered in an age of cynicism in track and field