Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America in 1985 and again last year. I was always somewhat overlooked." Her coach, Bob Kersee, had found gold for other athletes, including Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who is Kersee's wife and Al Joyner's sister (making the four of them a sort of First Family of U.S. track). "Bobby told me to go to the trials in the 200," says Flo-Jo. "But Al and I had decided I'd go to the trials in the 100 and 200." After the event, Griffith Joyner announced that instead of Kersee, her husband would henceforth be her coach...
...train together and advise each other on and off the track. Despite the flashy outfits, Griffith Joyner is soft-spoken and demure away from competition. She pays fastidious attention to her appearance. In fact, if she has time between heats, she will change not only her outfit but also her nail polish. "I love it when she paints on little palm trees," says an adoring Al. He insists that his wife's departure from Kersee's club will not cause any awkwardness come Thanksgiving Day. Says Al: "Jackie will always be my sister, Bobby will always be my brother...
...will be this year's Olympic superanchor. NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas will handle late-night coverage, and Newcomer Gayle Gardner, brought over from ESPN, will co-host much of the daytime broadcasts. Among the veteran NBC hands who will be working their first TV Olympics are Charlie Jones, covering track and field, Marv Albert on boxing and Dick ("Oh my!") Enberg for gymnastics. There will even be new theme music from the ubiquitous John Williams...
Nino Fennoy, a saintly coach of the kind these neighborhoods always seem to inspire, steered her through a series of Junior Olympics championships and a busy career of basketball and volleyball at Lincoln High. An admirer of the great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told...
...practically every category: fourth in rebounds, eighth in scoring, tenth in assists. In 1981, in the middle of Jackie's freshman season, Mary died of meningitis after an illness that lasted one day. She was just 38. "Her determination," Jackie says, "passed to me." Leaning on a UCLA assistant track coach, Bob Kersee, Jackie began to point toward the 1984 Games...