The ESPN Story of "Flo Jo" and Al -- Very Touching

Great story. I teared up a few times... thanks for sharing.

Excellent story, indeed. And I'm one of the shameful a-holes who accused FloJo of doping.

That was awesome, I didn't take my eyes from the computer screen once haha. I hope more people can read and appreciate this.

80s Guy wrote:

Excellent story, indeed. And I'm one of the shameful a-holes who accused FloJo of doping.

Shameful?

Anyone who watched her career, anyone who knows anything about Kersey the Chemist, Walter Jekot MD, John Smith and others "testing" things on the West Side knows she was doped to her eyeballs. Anyone who saw the physical changes, heard the change in her voice, saw droves of other easily visible manifestations of drug use knows she was doped. She was an abominable cheat on the track. Deal with it.

The Marxists are right. Most Americans and Westerners in general are childish in many ways, taking almost everything they see or are told at face value.

Yeah, constant pep talks and positive thinking will take a woman near the end of her career from 11.0 to 10.49.

Did you read the article at all or did you just come in here to post your previously decided opinion?

No longer eating McDonald's doing, maintaining a strict diet, getting the right amount of sleep, doing more strength exercises might help along with constant pep talks and positive thinking.

Didn't everyone rag on Webb and say he got slow because he ate at McDonald's?

The article was not about athletics or performance enhancing drugs. The article was about a relationship between two people and it was well written. It had nothing to do with sport and that's okay. However in reading this article, ones opinion of if there were PED's in use shouldn't change one way or the other. It's my opinion that she was doped to the gills in 1988. Why would an autopsy performed in 1998 prove anything for the believers? The autopsy determined her cause of death. That's it. It did not clear her name from suspicion of drug use.

She is still considered the poster child for people doing studies in PED's and even genetic engineered type cheating.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/sports/2002/03/21/genes/index.html

The ESPN story was fantastic. All you young letsrunner males should heed this advice:

"I had to stop calling her," he says. "I thought about high school and how girls I'd be out with would all of a sudden want to be just friends. I didn't want to ruin the relationship. So I just stopped. Stopped being around her, stopped practicing with her."

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That salon.com link is compelling: HGH.

flo jo , still queen of track

The storie wrote:

The ESPN story was fantastic. All you young letsrunner males should heed this advice:

"I had to stop calling her," he says. "I thought about high school and how girls I'd be out with would all of a sudden want to be just friends. I didn't want to ruin the relationship. So I just stopped. Stopped being around her, stopped practicing with her."

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That salon.com link is compelling: HGH.

Even more compelling are the comments in that Salon article about Santa Monica Track Club (page 3 of that article).

I've always thought the braces explanation was a fishy one. Lets review, if you are poor (which most members of SMTC were as children) you probably do not have access to proper dental care. Now those same children, as professionals, not only have access to enough money to afford proper dental care but are also in a profession that requires them to be in the public eye (and subject to mean jokes). How likely are those kids to attempt to correct this problem?