Florence Griffith Joyner

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Over the years Direct correlation between success in a classroom and success on a track have improved many students today are staying focused, team sports is the only extracurricular activity to make a significant difference to students’ academic grades and also new research has been revealed. Florence Griffith Joyner also known as Flo Jo was born in Florence Delores Griffith on December 21, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, and went on to become one of the fastest competitive runners of the 1980s. She started running at the age of 7 when she turned 14 she won the Jesse Owens national youth games, she then competed for Jordan high school where she ran anchor on the relay team, and then she went on and raced at the college level. Joyner …show more content…

By continuing the work she started Florence Griffith Joyner was an amazing Olympian from the age of 7 until she passed away that’s something amazing to think about, success doesn’t just come to you, you got to work for it let it be known that you want to earn it just as if you were on a track you got too work to win it doesn’t just come to you. Working together can mean a lot when it comes to track and field you work together to help each other out on things that are getting done wrong, same with inside a classroom the teacher may not be able to help you out the all the time so you would have to ask your peers. Joyner’s support system was her mother Delores Griffith” wow I’ve raised an Olympian”. Her daughter won Olympic gold in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Joyner mother loved her so much she did everything she could for her

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