t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-03 Thread Andre Sammartino
Three is presumably a whole lot more on this floating around the Web: Flo-Jo's doctor believes the world's fastest woman was a drug cheat Yet just 11 days before the Sydney Games, there is open speculation that Florence Griffith Joyner used drugs. An investigation by British newspaper The Sunday

RE: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread Jon Entine
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:47:06 -0700 From: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: t-and-f: flo-jo Ahhh. You guys just don't give up with the Flo-Jo drug conspiracy theories, do you? What follows is a short abstract of her career, which shows, without a doubt, with the

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread Dan Doherty
RE: t-and-f: flo-jo > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:47:06 -0700 > From: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: t-and-f: flo-jo > > Ahhh. You guys just don't give up with the Flo-Jo drug conspiracy > theories, > do you? > > What follows is a short

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread Dan Kaplan
--- Dan Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you that did not know it, Flo-Jo passed away a couple of > years ago. Why don't we just let her rest in peace! I presume because not everyone shares the belief that death is some sacred state that cannot be discussed. As far as I know

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-03 Thread Kurt Bray
Andre posted: >Flo-Jo's doctor believes the world's fastest woman was a drug cheat I don't know whether she was or not, but when it comes to the continual trashing of her reputation, I think we would be wise to follow these words written about 23 centuries ago by the Greek philosopher Aristotl

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-03 Thread Andre Sammartino
At 22:06 3/09/00 -0700, A.J. Craddock wrote: >I see nothing there about Flo-Jo. > >Where is it? > >Tony Craddock > Sorry about that, bad cutting and pasting on my part try: http://www.olympics.smh.com.au/athletics/2000/09/04/FFX3FIA2KCC.html Story is below Flo-Jo's doctor believes the world's f

RE: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread malmo
> Three is presumably a whole lot more on this floating around the Web: > > Flo-Jo's doctor believes the world's fastest woman was a drug cheat . > > (much more in this story...) > > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1161376%2 Ahhh. You guys just don't give up with the Fl

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread Conway
On Sunday, September 03, 2000 10:47 PM Malmo said: > Ahhh. You guys just don't give up with the Flo-Jo drug conspiracy theories, > do you? > > What follows is a short abstract of her career, which shows, without a > doubt, with the benefit of hard work, determination and courage - ANYTHING > can

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread Michael Rohl
netters Though I rarely comment on these issues. Here is one now. Conway Wrote: > So, questions about drug use aside, how do you explain FloJo's 88 season as > "predictable and within the norms of world class sprinting" ?? Extremely bad wind reading measures? As I recall in Indianapolis t

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread Elliott Oti
> Ahhh. You guys just don't give up with the Flo-Jo drug conspiracy theories, > do you? > > What follows is a short abstract of her career, which shows, without a > doubt, with the benefit of hard work, determination and courage - ANYTHING > can happen. Question: if Flo-Jo had been East-European

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread RunrCoach
Whatever did happen to Dawn Sowell? 1989-100m 10.78 Number 1 ranked 1989-200m 22.04 Number 1 ranked A.C.

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread R.T.
>How about a show of hands by those who feel that the Flo-Jo "issue" has been >discussed enough on this list. Both sides have made their arguments many >times over, and I'm sure very few people have been persuaded to change their >minds based on the information presented here. There are some wh

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread R.T.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:29:51 -0400, you wrote: >For those of you that did not know it, Flo-Jo passed away a couple of years >ago. >Why don't we just let her rest in peace! > >Dan Doherty Let's say the IAAF throws out all world records set before 2000. Is an exception made if the record-setter

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread R.T.
>How about Attila the Hun? Maybe we should canonize him, too, while we're >in a forgiving mood. >Give me a break! >Tony Craddock Okay, okay, I vote to KEEP Attila on the Survivor dinner list. I've always wanted to have a barbarian over for supper to prove to my wife that my table manners aren'

Re: Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread WMurphy25
In a message dated 9/4/0 8:26:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <> How about a show of hands by those who feel that the Flo-Jo "issue" has been discussed enough on this list. Both sides have made their arguments many times over, and I'm sure very few people have been persuaded to change their

Re: Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-04 Thread A.J. Craddock
You mean it's OK to railroad the world's fastest human (Canadian) out of the sport with a trumped up drug test (the only alleged drug positive in the entire Seoul Olympics) and give his medal to an American, but we have to leave poor Flo-Jo's (American) supernatural accomplishments alone because s

Re: Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-05 Thread Runtenkm
I don't know. Which event did he compete in? Re: Flojo. I can't see either side swaying the other in this argument at this point barring a confession from Flojo (unlikely) or Al (possibly less likely). Steve S.

Re: Re: t-and-f: flo-jo

2000-09-05 Thread whitmank
Re: Flojo. I can't see either side swaying the other in this argument at this point barring a confession from Flojo (unlikely) or Al (possibly less likely). Steve S. Speaking of Al Joyner, didn't I see that he had been named an assistant coach at UCLA? Don't recall any discussion regarding tha

t-and-f: Flo-Jo and the 10.49

2001-12-19 Thread P N Heidenstrom
FLO-JO AND THE LEGEND OF THE 10.49 The story so far: At the US final Olympic tryouts at Indianapolis in 1988 Florence Griffith Joiner lowered the world record for 100m from 10.76 to 10.49. Others in that and the next quarterfinal also turned in superfast times. The wind reading in both race

Re: t-and-f: flo-jo & the meaning of life

2000-09-04 Thread Dan Kaplan
Fair enough. I just prefer people to be honest as to why they do or do not want to discuss things, regardless of what is actually being discussed... Heck, when we get right down to it, does anything we discuss on this list or do in life really matter? It's all a matter of opinion and/or philoso