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1985 Womens 200m! Florence griffith

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This was a 1985 meet held at UCLA, with the top three 200m runners in the world from the 84 olympics Valerie Hooks, Florence Griffith and Merlene Ottey. Gold Silver and Bronze medalists. Enjoy and leave comments.

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  • You know what an athlete can change in three years! Three years is a long time for an althle to improve. Look at Tyson Gay for Instance. He's a great sprinter and now he has 3 golds from this past World Championships. Three years (although a good 200m runner) where was he in the 100m and 200?.

    He was was fourth or fifth in the 200m at the 2005 Campionships and beaten by Asafa In every100m race in 2006! Now he's on top and working towards the Olympics this year!! Great:)

  • All her records and medals should be shase!

    She was on drugs for sure!

  • regarless of speculation, nothing can be proven so we have to go by that. It may suck to some people,but thats the rules!

  • Quite fancied old Flo-Jo until I realised she was Flo-Jim. Athletes don't die that young from natural causes.

  • "flo-jim" is too funny :)

  • Athletes are not super human. Just because they appear physically fit doesn't mean they won't die young. Take for instance, Marathon Runner Ryan Shay who died the other day at 28. It's sad, but things of this sort happens whether you are an athlete or just an average joe. You just never know when you are going to go!

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  • exactly. Her form and style changed so much over the time. combine that with hard work, and her times aren't so unrealistic; there are gifted people out there, and she was one of them. I think she was clean...but even if she wasn't...no other steroid user ever came close.

  • Wilma Rudolph too.

    She competed in the 1956 Olympics and didn't do so well (got the Bronze medal in the 4x100 relay)...But by the 1960 Olympics she won 3 gold medals and set a new record in the 100 meter sprint at the time...So, yes, athletes do change in 3 years or more. With better training and more determination too.

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  • Tell me why flo jo is any diff. then michael jordan?? he is a freak of nature in the basketball world and she was jus in Track n field..steroids! come on really!! um no...so i guess Usain Bolt is to? get outta here!

  • people just dont get it..sometime a runner can get a better run that day,it happens sometimes...this is in 85 n she got 3rd place but in 84 olympic she got silver so she got silver she wasnt on drugs but in 88 she was because she won??lol dumb she kept training hard an improved,,just because she retired she on dope...lol dumb she already been in 2 olympics what else do you want her to do most athlics who go once to the olympic dont make a 2nd time she was bless to do it twice n she retire great

  • Is that Jim Lampley speaking?

  • yeh, but Flo Jo did 10.61 in legal conditions so it doesnt really matter, just because she was phenominal doesnt prove she cheated, innocent til proven guilty, which she never was. You could say the same about Usain Bolt because he is phenominal, They were and are both amazing and you can't disagree with that, both remained innocent. Wheres the love?

  • Its very interesting to note that the German Chancellor Frau Angela Merkel is re-opening the sports school that produced all the great women sprinters like Marita Koch, Marlies Gohr, Heike Drechsler, Katrin Krabbe, Silke Moller. Germany will have great women stars again very soon.

  • LMAO thats what i was thinking.

  • ....stay of the drugs man

  • They are so far out of reach that track magazines refer to "the non-Flo-Jo mark of 10.76" when talking about the world record. Do you know that the wind-gauge reading on every other race that day in Indianapolis was never less than 3-point-something meters per second? (Anything over 2.0 invalidates a world record.) That the readings before Flo-Jo's record and after it were 4-point-something? But for the record itself the gauge read 0.0?

  • Jones did not get caught, she turned herself in

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