Women played an active role for participating
in several fields such as sports, education and health. There was a girl named
Florence Griffith-Joyner and her nick name was Flo-Jo. She was among the list of the 10 fastest women and she won 5 medals (3 gold medals and 2
silver medals) because of participating in the 100m and 200m events. In
addition, she was well known personalities in the world in the sport field and
she received the James E. Sullivan Award because she was considered as the top
amateur athlete in the United States in 1988. Moreover, she engaged on
designing the basketball uniforms for the Indian Pacers
In 1996, she announced that she decided to participate in
the 400m. She trained to achieve her goal however; she suffered tendinitis in
her right leg that was responsible for stopping her career. In 1998 she died of
epilepsy when she was 38 years old. Griffith-Joyner's
supporters claimed that she died because she used performance-enhancing drugs.
However, the results obtained from the Orange County coroner's office displayed
that she didn't use the drugs.
