How has FloJo’s 100m world record remained unbroken for so long compared to men’s 100m sprint?
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Since 1997 the International Athletics Annual of the [Association of Track and Field Statisticians](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Track_and_Field_Statisticians) has listed this performance as “probably strongly wind assisted, but recognized as a world record”.[[38]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griffith_Joyner#cite_note-40)[[b]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griffith_Joyner#cite_note-42)
There is at least one allegation that she was supplied HGH. The Olympics in the 80s (and I guess almost always to different degrees) were especially dirty. She had the same trainer as Carl Lewis who vehemently denied performance enhancing drugs for decades until finally coming clean, but saying everyone else was on it, so it’s fair (the lance Armstrong defense). Nowadays, they keep samples for at least a decade so that if new detection technology is developed, they will (hopefully) be able to detect the once undetectable drugs.
In my opinion, I strongly disagree with the people who say “who cares?” If you think about it, Sports are the most arbitrary endeavor there is and fairness is always debatable. You need to maintain the structure of what’s allowable and what’s not. I don’t think it’s fair that other athletes have been denied medals and holding works records because other athletes break these agreed-upon rules. Most athletes eventually come clean at some point, but we’ll never know for certain because she died in 1998. Cool track uniform though.
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