Tragic Details Found In Florence Griffith Joyner's Autopsy

Olympian legend or all-time cheat everyone's got their own opinion about Florence Griffith Joyner but what have we learned in the years since her death American Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner was a celebrated athlete in her time on top of her many accomplishments in the mid to late 1980s she set several world records and won a number of Olympic gold and silver medals joyner's extravagant personal style and

charismatic personality set her apart from her athletic colleagues both in and out of competitions sadly when an athlete is as successful as Joyner was in her lifetime suspicion often follows such was the case all throughout flojo's career relating in particular to the use of HGH or human growth hormone the accusations leveled at Joyner began in Earnest one year after the 1988 season during this time Joyner

displayed rapid Improvement in her performance I felt good people were probably doubting me yeah can I run 1049 again and I do believe that I can the speculation regarding her drug use only intensified when Joyner died suddenly in 1998 at age 38 as it turned out the autopsy report revealed not only what had killed the athlete but also the question of whether performance-enhancing drugs had played

a role in her death Joyner a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles first caught the attention of track fans at the 1984 Olympic games which took place in her hometown of Los Angeles she won silver that year in the 200 meter race but was nevertheless disappointed with her performance so she retired by 1987 however Joyner was back at it and better than ever spurred

on by a new weight training regimen and a refinement in her running technique this hard work paid off for Joyner in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul South Korea where she set a world record and won three gold medals and a silver according to Joyner herself her sudden Improvement in her performance came down to a strict diet and intense exercise in 1988 however fellow American Sprinter

Daryl Robinson claimed in a paid interview that he had purchased HGH for Joyner at her request Joyner denied these allegations and passed several drug screenings though HGH was not tested for at the time in fact it wasn't even banned by the international Olympic Committee until that year to this day there are few ways to definitively prove or disprove if an athlete has taken HGH and for

this reason it's speculated to be among the most abused PEDs in athletic competition when Joyner died in 1998 some wondered whether or not Peds could have played a part as far as the toxicology report is concerned however Joyner only had acetaminophen in her system as well as the allergy medication Benadryl neither drug was ruled to be a factor in her death Joyner had instead been killed

by A congenital brain condition called cavernous angioma this rare brain condition causes blood to pool outside areas where it normally would particularly in the brain and spinal tissue symptoms of cavernous angioma include headaches and epileptic-like seizures that can sometimes lead to Suffocation which is exactly what happened to Joyner roughly 25 percent of the population suffers from this condition and it's possible to live your life without

ever knowing it nowadays CAT scans are able to catch cavernous angioma and notably there is no known link between the condition and ped steroid or HGH intake at the time then International amateur athletic Federation president Primo nebiolo said this report ensures that Florence Griffith Joyner will be able to rest in peace according to her autopsy joyner's official cause of death was ruled to be seizure-induced asphyxiation

on account of A congenital brain condition in the minds of some however this was not enough and the Olympian's supposed drug use was not totally put to rest one known side effect of prolonged HGH use is acromegaly a condition that causes enlarged facial features and oversized internal organs due to a hormonal imbalance symptoms of acromegaly also include abnormal bone growth particularly in the hands and feet

joinerspost mortem report does mention an oversized heart among other organs which coupled with her athletic performance throughout her career could be a sign of HGH use while this evidence remains inconclusive at best it appears to have left an indelible question mark hovering over joiner's Olympic Legacy [Music] foreign [Music]