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Flo Jo, Legend Running Sports World

Flo Jo
Flo Jo, Legend Running Sports World. Sports sprint world has ever given birth to a legend. Florence Griffith Joyner He was nicknamed or Flo Jo. If there is a name in Indonesia Agung Wibowo Suryo to the nickname "fastest man", the record holder sprint 100 meters with a time of 10.17 seconds, then at Florence Griffith Joyner was the world record holder in the sport athletic.

There is a famous saying, which is from zero to hero. The saying may be a mirror Florence Griffith Joyner's life story. He had not known at all as an athlete to run, even not at all taken into account. Suddenly appeared like lightning in the prestigious world sports arena, the Olympic Games, with a record of successful world he created.

All eyes in the direction of a beautiful woman with extraordinary abilities as he chuckled admiringly. However, Florence Griffith Joyner re-create all the fans eyes staring at him jogging at 21 September 1988. Not because of the action of lightning as he ran, but because he tragically died of a heart attack.

Early Introduction to Sports Running

[Flo jo] The world athletics legend was born in the south of Los Angeles, USA, on December 21, 1959. He's real name Delorez Florence Griffith. Flo Jo comes from a poor family with many children. He himself was the seventh child of eleven children. Their families live in Watts, Los Angeles, USA.

After adolescence, life has not provided a bright spot for Flo Jo to tread a bright future. He was then determined to finish his education at Cal State Northridge, a university hours away from where she lived. At that time, Flo Jo did not know the track that will bring up his name.

It works everything for the college fund. Flo Jo had been a children's author, poet, because her face was beautiful she was also a model, fashion designer and even sporting costume specialties. Flo Jo do anything for her. Intelligence and physical strength actually tested as a teenager. He was also fond of sports, but not specifically focus on the athletic world in the branch run.

Florence Griffith Joyner then worked as a bank clerk, after which he elaborated from college with all that hard work. At the company where he worked was the one, Flo Jo started honed talent, and he began to plunge actively in the field of running.

Flo Jo Career in Sports Running

Flo Jo decides to quit her job at the bank in 1986. But apparently, the company where he worked was still convinced that women who keep long nails up and dangle it, have a huge potential in the field of athletics. So the company is still pushing Flo Jo to practice even though he was no longer working at the bank.

Apparently Flo Jo was able to prove that the belief is true. He was like was born to be a star on the athletic field, and is in fact not just a woman who can sit behind a desk all. Although the figure of a woman, but his determination beats all that. Flo Jo started training seriously in the running, and took the sprint specialization. Under the guidance of Bob Kersee and his wife, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, sports athletes as well as coaches who run it strengthens the spirit of beautiful woman, the name of Flo Jo began skyrocketed.

It instantly became a star runner in the Olympic arena in 1988 in Indianapolis, USA. He originally did not taken into account, in the blink of an eye to be in the news in all the newspapers. Beautiful figure even many a magazine cover. Really from zero to hero.

There is something unique about the long nails that held Flo Jo. That said, Flo Jo was not allowed to go down in the 400 meter relay, long nails because of concern that it hinders the exchange of baton between players. Then in the 1992 Seoul Olympics, Flo Jo re-carve the form of record-breaking achievements in the sport run 200 meters, with a time of 21.34 seconds.

Women who have this amazing body muscles was recorded as the fastest woman in the world with a record not broken sprint sport he created. Suspicions arise, because all of a sudden do not have a big name in the field of athletics like Flo Jo, able to be champion, even making a new record that is very difficult to be overthrown.

In 1987, Flo Jo is married to the sister of his coach, Al Joyner, who is also a world-class athlete in the sport of high jump. From there the origin of the name Joyner attached to his name. In 1988, Florence Griffith Joyner successfully passed the selection to also be a participant in a world-class sporting events, the Olympic Games, who was held in Indianapolis. Sporting event, held every 4 years this is the first major event she attended.

It is remarkable, Flo Jo was able to win the sprint number or the 100 meters, and even broke the record in the number of prestigious track and set a new record in his name to 10, 49 seconds. His record is unsolved for 20 years. All eyes were immediately directed to a woman who always dressed with full makeup, trendy sports clothing, and do not forget the long fingernails long.

The issue of the use of doping rushing through her. Suspicions were raised on the beautiful runner on the use of illegal drugs he might do. But Flo Jo broke suspicion by passing a series of tests given to him. Eleven drug test she passed in 1988 and has always denied he had done anything unethical in the field of running.

Flo Jo was a career peak in the Olympic arena. But suddenly, just like when they appear in the sports arena are also running suddenly, Flo Jo decided to quit and retire from the world of running that has made his name a few months after he carve a world record at the Seoul Olympics. He plans to pursue the world of fashion and beauty that she liked with the capital money that he got from the world of sports.

One morning, in 1998, exactly 21 September, Flo Jo, who was aged 38 has surprisingly been found dead while sleeping. Doctors estimate that the cause of death of the legend in the branch that is the cause of heart failure. Flo Jo is survived by his daughter from his marriage to Al Joyner, as well as a world record even up to his death has not been solved.

In the course of his career is very short but remarkable in the field of sports sprint, Flo Jo has been able to become a legend. Sudden death in healthy body condition could lead to the suspicion that Flo Jo had previously been put on steroids. But the autopsy proved that he is entirely clean. Flo Jo's death left the funeral, as well as a sweet story for the world track.

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