A buddy told me he thought he did or had some connections to her in the back of the day. When I goodle, I don't find anything from a newspaper article although I did find this:
A buddy told me he thought he did or had some connections to her in the back of the day. When I goodle, I don't find anything from a newspaper article although I did find this:
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This is the 2nd thread you have confused FloJo with Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I get super confused with the all the Joyners and Kersees but Flo Jo was married to Al Joyner and only coached by Kersee (at CSUN and later at UCLA). Kersee married Al's sister Jackie, the heptathlete, to make her Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Of all those people and names, only Flo Jo is no longer with us and she's the one who died at 38.
Regarding Coach Kersee - there seems to be little doubt that FloJo was drugging. However, Jackie Joyner-Kersee seems to get a pass. No one has come close to her 1988 7291 WR (#2 is 7032 by Carolina Kluft in 2007). Anna Hall’s PR 6988 is #5 AT. Why hasn’t JJK gotten more shade?
rojo wrote:
A buddy told me he thought he did or had some connections to her in the back of the day. When I goodle, I don't find anything from a newspaper article although I did find this:
Responding to the original topic of the thread, it looks like Gallagher was at the same club as Kersee but coached by Chuck DeBus, who has his own incredibly dodgy history that I'd never heard of. Below is an old thread with more info:
Kim Gallagher is a middle school and high school legend. I think she ran 2:02 as a freshman in high school. Didn't need dope.
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Regarding Coach Kersee - there seems to be little doubt that FloJo was drugging. However, Jackie Joyner-Kersee seems to get a pass. No one has come close to her 1988 7291 WR (#2 is 7032 by Carolina Kluft in 2007). Anna Hall’s PR 6988 is #5 AT. Why hasn’t JJK gotten more shade?
Not to take this thread off topic but I think the heptathlon is a different animal. A person does not need to be exceptional in any discipline - just very solid in each. It takes a great ATHLETE, which is what JJK was. We all knew that girl in high school who was the star of a couple teams, say volleyball, basketball, and track, but she could have also been the star player on the soccer team, the softball team, the XC team, the swim team, etc. Some people are just outstanding ATHLETES.
Besides the long jump, JJK was not out-of-this-world good in any event. She was just very good in all of them and thus her lead gradually grew after every event. Comparing JJK's world record in the 1988 Seoul Olympics with Kluft's 7000+ point best performance in the 2007 Osaka World Championships:
JJK - 100m - #1; HJ - #1; SP - #2; 200m - #1; LJ - #1; Jav - #4; 800m - #5
Kluft - 100m - #2; HJ - #1; SP - #3; 200m - #2; LJ - #2; Jav - #7; 800m - #5
JJK won four out of seven events and was second in another. Given that she was the best long jumper in the world, she crushed everyone and scored huge points in the LJ.
Kluft only won one event but beat the field by 200 points.
It is not uncommon to see a heptathlon winner only win one or two events. JJK winning four is just about unheard of. Her all-around athletic talent was simply unmatched.