Flying with Flo-Jo

I loved to watch Flo-Jo run. Even more than that I loved her outfits! I wanted a pair of her one legged florescent colored running tights. Even now I wish for funkier running attire.

Her performance was not without controversy. Flo-Jo maintained that she never used drugs. Although she tested negative on all of her drug tests, the rumors kept swirling. On Sept. 25, 1988, Flo-Jo won her first Olympic gold medal. Ten years after capturing the admiration of America, while sleeping in her home in Mission Viejo, Cal., she died of suffocation during a severe epileptic seizure on Sept. 21, 1998. Florence Griffith Joyner was 38 years old.

While questions resurfaced about drugs, the autopsy did not reveal any use of steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs in her system.

Thank you Flo-Jo for inspiring the rest of us to fly!