Florence
Griffith-Joyner aka Flo-Jo was a famous female sprinter, she entered the
100 meter dash, 200 meter dash and had world records in both; she was said to be
the greatest female sprinter in the world till this day. She wanted to enter the 400m dash; she was
training for it, but got tendinitis in her right leg and couldn't compete. She won gold medals in the 100m dash, silver in the 200m dash and James E.
Sullivan award as top amateur athlete. Out of the track she designed the
basketball uniforms for the Indiana Pacers.
Sadly at the age of 38 she died of epilepsy; there were allegations of
her using performance drugs, but in the autopsy it was cleared that she didn't have
any drugs in her system and that tissue and organ tests revealed none of the
changes associated with recent steroids use.
