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Jun 24, 2022 · When an athlete is as successful as Joyner was in her lifetime, suspicions of cheating with performance- enhancing drugs (PEDs) often follow. Such was the case all throughout Flo-Jo's career, relating, in particular, to the use of HGH, or human growth hormone.
Sep 23, 1998 · The spectre of drug abuse over the death of Olympic sprint champion Florence Griffith-Joyner emerged into the public arena yesterday, although a cautious International Olympic Committee...
Visually the pictures reveal two different people, with the Flo Jo at Seoul having that chiseled look of the sculpted steroiduser. Herperformance at Seoul was a vast improvement on the previous games and her previous times also indicative of drug enhanced performance.
- Richard C. Crepeau
- 1998
After her death in 1998, Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, claimed that Griffith Joyner was singled out for extra, rigorous drug testing during the 1988 Olympic Games following rumors of steroid use.
Oct 23, 1998 · The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner’s office found that the only drugs in her system when she died were small amounts of the over-the-counter painkiller acetominophen and the antihistamine...
Aug 10, 2016 · Some rumous even claim that Flo-Jo had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 1988 Games along with Joyner-Kersee and the result was covered up.
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Oct 22, 1998 · The seizure apparently struck during sleep, causing Griffith Joyner's limbs to tense. It possibly wrenched her head to the right as she lay on her stomach, said Dr. Richard Fukumoto, chief of forensics for the Orange County sheriff and coroner.
