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Groundbreakers

Icons That Changed the Game: Florence Griffith Joyner

3m 46s

Jackie Joyner-Kersee on her sister-in-law and teammate Florence Griffith Joyner’s remarkable career. She details how “Flo-Jo” became not only a pop culture icon, but the “Fastest Woman in the World.”

Aired: 12/06/23
CORRECTION (Dec. 8, 2023): This program mistakenly refers to two events of the women’s heptathlon as the 60-meter and 1,000-meter run. The program should have referred instead to the 200-meter dash and 800-meter run in which Jackie Joyner-Kersee participated as part of the women’s heptathlon.