1988 Olympic Women's 4x400 Relay - World Record, American Record

Still the fastest women's 4x400 relay ever as both USA and USSR break the previous World Record. This race produced the current World Record, American Record & Olympic Record. Great matchup on anchor between Olga Bryzgina, 400m gold medal winner, and Florence Griffith-Joyner, 100 & 200 winner. Scroll down for results...or just watch!
1. USSR 3:15.18 WR, OR
Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina
2. United States 3:15.51 AR, NR
Denean Howard (49.82), Diane Dixon (49.17), Valerie Brisco (48.44), Florence Griffith-Joyner (48.08)
3. East Germany 3:18.29 NR

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

I will never say a negative word about FloJo. Not a 400 runner, yet put it all on the line for her country. Did we ever get to see Bolt, Maurice Greene, Carl Lewis, Justin Gatlin run the 4x400? You gotta love when someone goes out of their comfort zone for their country. RIP FloJo.

[@BISH9484]

Yes, the drug cheat Marion Jones! Could that be the common denominator???? 🙂🙂🙂

[@mikerichardson60]

Actually Bolt started his track career as a 200 and 400m runner. Try a little research before spewing nonsense.

[@TheRedprasad]

Great Flo Jo woman sprinter of all time.

[@mikerichardson60]

@@TheRedprasad best cheater we've seen for sure but karma reared it's ugly head so was it really worth it in the end

[@ronniejohnson196]

@@mikerichardson60 That Same "Karma" Could Boomerang For Slander and Lying>What Goes Around Comes Around!

[@danadudley3127]

My heart is beating so hard, despite the fact that I've known the outcome since I was a child.

[@protectedpeace2649]

Lol right

[@onepersonisthechanceandcha155]

Indeed

[@sassyintrovert]

Exactly. I'm yelling 🗣 GO FLO!!!

[@missmoon6624]

Same!

[@marvlinphillp512]

Me too lol

[@jazzyfour]

Damn, I didn't know Flo ran the 400m too. She was just the greatest. May she rest peacefully

[@dennisrobinson8008]

I just saw this thing that said Gail Devers did a 4x4 leg on one of the best relays.

[@The-Man-Right-Chea]

Li didn't know that either

[@Logans3Run]

...Like Ben Johnson, Griffiths-Joyner was an obvious drugs cheat...the only difference between the two, He got caught, she didn't...Both the Eastern Europeans and Americans throughout the 80's , were on the 'GEAR'.. The race for 'dominance', between the US and former USSR, was definitely NOT limited too, the nuclear weapons arms race ;) ....

[@carladavis1473]

She didn't. She was placed in the 400 relay list minute. She was very nervous about this race.

[@dennisrobinson8008]

@@carladavis1473 we realized that she did very well

[@MrSuperMac]

Both teams broke the women’s world record. Hell of a Olympics

[@andrekrapcha938]

The Soviet men broke a woman's record?? Shocker!!😱😱

[@ThePled9e]

Flo on juice for sure

[@thetrackstar215]

@@ThePled9e pretty sure all the Russian women were

[@ThePled9e]

@@thetrackstar215 yep the soviet team were surely on the juice also

[@johnnieachaya1980]

An Olympics dude not a olympics .

[@eddiejones856]

I was stationed in Germany during the 1988 Olympic. Games would come on 2:00 AM. Watched most of it before 6:00 AM formation. Remember my First Sergeant postpone formation one morning to allowed the company to watch Flo Jo run.

[@protectedpeace2649]

🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@antidoteforlife9460]

Ramstein

[@eddiejones856]

@@antidoteforlife9460 Bamberg Warner Barracks in Bavaria.

[@cleesh127akaelmo]

Man I get so pumped watching sprints. I feel like I'm getting ready to run one...so siked for olympics

[@dumbskeppy69]

lol me too

[@Baskerville22]

psyched, not "siked".

[@brianoreilly2829]

Sameeee what country u rooting for?

[@karykares]

Lol 😂 Do you guys move your legs when you watch sprints? I kinda do 🤣🤧

[@TonyPhillipsSD]

Yeah, super siked (seriously?)

[@drekoforbez3525]

RIP Florence Joyner aka Flo Jo the Queen of the one hundred metres

[@MrDangelo7777]

She may be the Queen but THE G.O.A.T. IS Shelly Ann F. P.

[@shanonfernando1326]

@@MrDangelo7777 no disrespect to Fraser Pryce but you can’t be the GOAT if u don’t have the world record

[@MrDangelo7777]

@@shanonfernando1326 we all know what we saw and we all. no what we seeing.

[@rossogden9920]

@@shanonfernando1326 Actually you can be, when any honest person with an IQ over 80 knows that FloJo was juiced to the gills. #DrugCheat

[@XxDAOGJAYYxX]

@gerry findon yeah she’s not even in the top 10 in the 400

[@user-gz3wx9jw9z]

Состав той "золотой четвёрки" : 1.Татьяна Ледовская (1966г.р.) 2.Ольга Назарова (1965г.р.) 3.Мария Пинигина (1958г.р.) 4.Ольга Брызгина (1963г.р.)

[@strixnebulosa6921]

1. Testosterone 2. Testosterone 3. Testosterone 4. Testosterone

[@RainmanUz]

@@strixnebulosa6921 blsht

[@ramieddfour]

Спасибо)

[@user-jp1oo2xo3q]

@@strixnebulosa6921 We are not here now and you are glad. Maybe we had testosterone, but in order to fight your testosterone on equal terms. And we won. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, you realized that you can do anything. You have come up with therapeutic exceptions. It was an excuse to win. You are calm now. You don't have such rivals. I can write too. The composition of the U.S. national team: the first stage is testosterone, the second stage is testosterone, the third stage is double-dose testosterone, the fourth stage is testosterone.

[@user-go2nb3cc1d]

​@@strixnebulosa6921 US bull...t.

[@MrRobles1284]

The best and most amazing Women's 4×400 meters race ever. The most classic and epic one!!

[@erikav-carlsen8311]

Watching old track videos when im waiting for track season to restart

[@claudemormon7529]

Think U.S. should have had Cheesebourgh on 2nd leg

[@aliasmith7966]

Same.

[@ObssessedwithGermany]

I love Florence Griffith Joyner always! ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@CubikRubika]

USA Fucking dope team

[@user-ry7om1co4u]

​@CubikRubika doped up win they don't lose.

[@user-le7uz8ff9m]

Напичкали бедную девочку химией до смерти и рады?😳😥

[@michaelwatson7479]

I just love watching sprinting. Speed and power in the most raw and primal form ever. Gets me pumped every time.

[@JackycClark]

I love watching the relays , 4x400 & 4x100 . Really not sure why those 2 events .

[@Blessed-tn1wd]

Me too! 😊

[@MariE-bz2eq]

I'm actually impressed with Flo Jo to have a 48.1 split considering she never practiced for the 400m. No way she was going to run her down. Too big of a lead. That 3rd U.S. anchor did make up alot of ground

[@matt7iron]

just saw this video flo jo was running against a steroid loaded dude a biological beast something was funky about that man-beast-woman racing flo jo.

[@onlyadro5692]

Mari E she was actually injured in this event

[@nuwandalton]

FGJ who, according to you, was on clean water.

[@darrenshaw767]

matty t Lol, Flo Jo was steroid loaded to so it was not like she was at a chemical disadvantage was it? Lol

[@johnbarleycorn5531]

@@matt7iron Weakest looking dude I've ever seen. Let's be honest Mr Blackman your apparently "drug-free" girls had their arses handed to them and were well and truly whooped! Hahahaha

[@atoyshabassene6273]

I was 11 and remember watching this. I had planned on running track for school bc both my parents did but watching Flo Jo run made me want to run even more

[@justintime7351]

props to that third leg, DAMN

[@originalboosie8189]

Yes, they may have won if the 2nd leg would have did her part.

[@Johnmag1976]

Great job ! I met Bryzgina several times..as a little girl, she had great dreams...fastest in school, then at 12yo ,then when 14 ,she had no choice but entering the System...lot of health problems now ...❤

[@adrianhowell968]

Flo Jo was obviously on drugs,I watched her 100 meters in 1988,she took nearly half a second off the record,they still haven't got that close to it,now I wonder why she died of a heart attack in her early fifties?

[@johnkomosa4089]

Wow, what an awesome race, they left it all on the track, awesome competition.

[@user-mc7bn7wf7y]

Красивые, скромные девушки из СССР! Патриотки!

[@Dmitry_Shaparenko]

Профессионалки, а не патриотки

[@pesokit]

При чём тут патриотизм? На патриотизме не побежишь.

[@daniellowe75]

What a fascinating and exciting race. I remember watching it as a 12 year old kid when I was a junior track and field athlete myself.

[@mrsjwp588]

She was fast and BEAUTIFUL. Very underrated and unappreciated. RIP Flo Jo!

[@watchiingunow618]

Underrated? She was on drugs!

[@rfp63sf]

@@watchiingunow618 Come with proof and receipts or stfu.

[@bjornwhyte7661]

Underrated my ass

[@m.d.walker]

She was never underrated

[@holyshy2440]

@@watchiingunow618 drugs can't give you that running style, idiot

[@gracemercy8477]

I can relate I can remember running the 400 meter dash in a tournament and never had ran it before I was a 200 meter and the 400 meter relay 800 relay and I was third leg sprinter that 400 meter is a beast pretty much full speed 1time around. I came in third and was so proud because who I ran against the best in our district, you have to keep up and that last straight give it your all but when you train for a specific race it's totally different your are prepared and condition for that race Flo Jo did great job. Mostly 400meters runners practice with long distance so that have the distance as well as the speed training. Flo Jo was a runner for God job well done Sister.💪💪💪🙏👏

[@Jerusalem23]

Flo Jo was so professional, quiet and classy. I love it!

[@JohnDoe-yi4xd]

Well, she was a 4th tier athlete until the last 2 years between 1987-1988.She was always seeking attention. Getting smoked by Ashford and the rest. Everyone who knows track knows she was a cheater. Nothing classy about her. Quit right after the Olympics when they were about to test her. A few years later...she died.

[@teevee7678]

@@JohnDoe-yi4xd ur a troll

[@JohnDoe-yi4xd]

Is that what you call people who tell the truth!

[@SS-fb5ve]

@@JohnDoe-yi4xd how did she cheat?

[@C-Note-to6vk]

@@JohnDoe-yi4xd what proof do you have. Sounds like slander. Don't do that especially to dead people

[@bodystorm]

1) Tatyana Ledovskaya 50.12 2) Olga Nazarova 47.82 3) Mariya Pinigina 49.43 4) Olga Bryzgina 47.80

[@jacoba4230]

All natty vegan

[@robnuckols2017]

Imagine how fast they would have been if they had two more Olga's.

[@moiseomri]

That second leg was what did the job

[@mikenealon4042]

47.82!

[@user-ee7hp7yo3v]

wow

[@champ4sho1]

Flo Jo is such a legend. Had no idea she ran the 400 this well

[@kaikenjr]

All great sprinters can run 400s. Because that what they train with

[@Logans3Run]

@@kaikenjr Hi Kelvin, Right. It's really weird when a National team coaches state that they cannot include a 4x400m team due to a 'weakness' at that event when they have strong 200 and 800m athletes, who could and should 'step up' or 'step down', to represent their Country. The current UK men's 400m situation, is a case in point.

[@Logans3Run]

"Legend"? For many different and wrong reasons, that's for sure.

[@champ4sho1]

@@Logans3Run yes Legend. I mean killed it in the 100 and 200m. Her records speak for her.

[@Logans3Run]

@@champ4sho1 Her so-called 'records' are the result of roids. That's not an opinion. The former US 400m champion Darrel Robinson, knows that as a fact.

[@dbrunsrtrom]

Watching this in 2020 and being reminded that East Germany used to be a real thing. Oh how far we've come.

[@dude999642]

Communism lost....we won!

[@saintsone7877]

@@dude999642 Yes, because we developed drugs that couldn't be detected. lol.

[@markymark2776]

What a race hats off to all 8 of these women

[@MuhammadTaufik-lw3xv]

In fact, 33 years later, its still a world record today. And US performance is still second fastest 4 x 400 all of time. Incredible!!

[@KryptonitetoallBS]

Not a big surprise when you consider many athletes back then were doping. In the 90's they got wise and used EPO which couldn't be traced. The current men's 1500 metre world record was set using that drug. Nothing else can explain the improvements made by Guerrouj. Initially he was absolutely destroyed by Morcelli and within 3 years he'd taken 9 seconds off his 1995 World Championship runner up time.

[@MuhammadTaufik-lw3xv]

@@KryptonitetoallBS But when you compare this athletic event and other sports, swimming for example, the time dropped drasticly. The time to win 1988 olympics is not even fast enought to qualify fo 2020 Olympics. Wasn't swimmers in 1988 olympics using dopping? So event with the dopping, the performance of this event in 1988 olympics is still incredible

[@johncrabtree8857]

It's been over 30 yrs and these records still haven't been broken so Something is pretty suspicious and Russia has been ban from competition

[@RhetoricalMuse]

@@MuhammadTaufik-lw3xv Since then the training, diet and even the track construction have improved. So naturally the times will as well. hence why the FloJo controversey is still ongoing - her records can't be broken. This coupled with her drastic masculinization and early death are all red flags. God knows what they put her on.

[@shaunkelly9860]

It's still a world record because sprinters can't get away with taking as ,many steroids as these two teams did.

[@user-zl1gt3cm4x]

Ох! Слёзы наворачиваются! Девушки - прелесть!!! 👏🌹💐💕💞💗💓❤🌹Таня! Ольга! Мария! Оля! 👏👏👏

[@user-ju6ml7hi2t]

Жрали допинг вот и выиграли. Поэтому уже 20 лет ничего не выигрывают.

[@user-zl1gt3cm4x]

@@user-ju6ml7hi2t Зря Вы так думаете! Все "жрали", а выиграли наши девушки!!! Они ЛУЧШИЕ!

[@user-ju6ml7hi2t]

@@user-zl1gt3cm4x я не спорю. Наши девушки были в Союзе лучшие. Но не сейчас. В Союзе все было лучше

[@user-zl1gt3cm4x]

Да, раньше "деревья были большие"... ☺🤫☀😂🌹

[@user-ju6ml7hi2t]

@@user-zl1gt3cm4x сейчас у вас нацизм на государственном уровне. Нацизм и шовинизм. Вся пропаганда нацистская. Ты уж извини. Это правда

[@MarjanVukovic]

Great race. Great victory. I have never seen any USA team to be so satisfied and happy with just being second and all of the sudden American record is getting more significant than WR or OR. Very rare indeed

[@ozwunder69]

@Felix Carpio koch did 47.60 in canberra world cup in 1985 not 1987

[@MEECHIO]

The split recorded by Olga Nazarova on the 2nd leg is still to this day one of the fastest women's relay splits of all time. She made Diane Dixon look slow(which she certainly wasn't).

[@brothaanthony3646]

It's called steroid's...lol

[@smoothnubian]

diane dixon is a psycho. she has some serious issues

[@robdurdain5912]

@@brothaanthony3646 The top 3 teams atleast, heck most of the teams in this final were full of drugs, so it balanced out. GDR, USA which remember had well known enormous dopers like Flo Jo and Brisco Hooks , and Soviet Union were all so pumped full of roids it was basically a mens race.

[@brothaanthony3646]

@robdurdain, at the end of the day, your analysis is more correct than mines...lol I concur!

[@msport_erick]

And with a pass on the turn as well!

[@gmajor1273]

I remember watching this live back in 1988. Everyone was so proud of all those great American ladies.

[@eastwest9819]

'Everyone was so proud' to be defeated by great soviet girls? Yes, you can be proud of it, because to lose with dignity, also breaking the previous world record on Olimpic, is a great achievement!

[@connie1458]

@@eastwest9819 jjjN k

[@eastwest9819]

@@connie1458 Please, could you translate these letters(jjjN k)?

[@PyromancerPheonix]

@@eastwest9819 hjusha nnsusKk

[@mindya1799]

I remember this like it was yesterday. I also remember 10 years later, the devastating news.... Florence Griffith Joyner died after suffering an epileptic seizure in her sleep. She was age 38.

[@eddy19610]

That’s what you get for taking steroids

[@kvernon1]

@@eddy19610 Flo-Jo never ... read that again, NEVER ... failed a drug test in her entire athletic career. And an autopsy after her tragic death revealed ZERO drugs in her system. Those are facts. You have none.

[@ghostfacenasir7248]

@@kvernon1 I mean the autopsy was years after she was using PEDS, were you expecting it to still find the drugs that she took years back?

[@rolandgreen7484]

@@kvernon1 That doesn't mean shit all. The East German swimmers and track athletes didn't fail a single drug test the entire 70s and 80s. What does that tell you. Or are you going to argue they were all clean too, please do as I need a laugh.

[@garrison6863]

What a great race this was. When you have two teams breaking the world record? Brisco was great as were the number 2 and 4 for the Soviets.

[@WordzBig]

I was on this Olympic team... and it was never proven , after constant testing that Flo was as you said "steroidal"... Fact was she was Beautiful and God Gifted.

[@nuwandalton]

Pleeeeease!

[@WordzBig]

@Serenas Temper Legit

[@WordzBig]

@@nuwandalton Believe what you want to believe. I myself was already triple jumping 53+ ft in highschool... I wasn't taking anything... God's Gifts. Any athlete can have a Freakishly good day at any time. I'm just saying " she was that Damnnn good"....!! Let her RIP'

[@nuwandalton]

She was bronze material at best until 86, and suddenly out the blue... You're not being realistic.

[@bobjacubas6818]

Everyone knew she was on something, she could never beat Ashford, always lost to her. Then 1988 comes and she is blowing her away. Her 100m time improved from a P.B. of 10.96 set in 1987, to 4 or 5 tenths of a second faster in less than a year. She was on HGH, before they had a test to detect it.

[@BISH9484]

She can run from behind the whole way, and she did!!!

[@amerleesilver4294]

Lolol! The irony. I thought she was gonna pull it out. But ran from behind she did. RIP. Flo Jo

[@mercwindow]

Marcus Aurelius injecting their steroids don't you mean

[@deejaylaw431]

sad thing is she really was flying !!! imagine if she had trained for the 400 ...

[@tyriquetaylor2151]

Omg lol

[@kataklismoe]

LoL I thought she would blow passed

[@wodzimierzbeck8882]

THE FIRST THREE TEAMS WAS 100% DOPING

[@lukasfontana7589]

No doubt about it.

[@alfonsoseriosa7170]

Bitter

[@scottamon8908]

I was born four months after these games, so I remember all of it.

[@sonnydelight5737]

I was born four months after you, so I remember your birth.

[@clynn5547]

😂🤣😅

[@jay21basketball]

Do you realize the 2016 Rio winning time just posted would not have made the medal stand in this race! Best 4x400 race of all time here!

[@stewgreen5036]

Do you realize they were all up to their eye balls on steroids?

[@WorldSacred]

Running a 3:20 relay for the Olympics is now considered standard. Considerable by the fact that the 1980s Olympics were considered the doping era.

[@carlamarie72]

+Stew Green 😅😅😅😅 you said what I was thinking smh💉💊💉💊

[@Lo71987]

Funny thing is nobody wants to see slow times.

[@WorldSacred]

@Joe Jordan Not really sure where you were going with that. It seemed that Griffith-Joyner retired from the Olympics and athletics to have a child. She waited until 1990 to have her daughter. I would assume that she wanted to make sure the performance enhancers were out of her system before she wanted to conceive. Doping in athletics still happens. Except, they use masking agents to prevent the detections. And if there were teams that could win at 3 minutes 15 seconds in the women's 4x400 relay, I would be asking questions of them about potential cheating.

[@anitrasmith9364]

It’s a blessing to be able to see and witness Flo Jo Greatness 30years Plus. She was Black Excellent💫💫✨✨👑 and My role model now and I’m in my 40’s. I was too young to back in day to understand the humbleness and Greatness..

[@seanou2837]

She was a cheatee

[@D_SQ]

Crazy that this race was that fast, considering Flo Jo looked like she was just jogging the whole time.

[@Orange-yp9bl]

All of these ladies are now in their 50's ... time doesn't move but it sure goes fast

[@glennlilley8608]

What the fuck! Do you! Think! You're saying! ??

[@pjenslin1]

Flo-Jo one of my favorite female runners of all time! Loved watching her run! So fluent and elegant! RIP Flo-Jo!

[@xxthatpookieeditsxx]

@Dave V , You right.

[@pjenslin1]

@Dave V I agree! We all have our suspicions, but still, it was amazing to watch her run!

[@stuartwayne4978]

And I also loved watching flo Jo abruptly retire early only days before the IAAF announced they would begin RANDOM, UNANNOUNCED drug testing!!! LOL!!! Her drug use was more than just a suspicion.....as was her early, East German style death!!!!

[@bsjejsje6543]

Agree, but why ripping her?

[@pjenslin1]

@@bsjejsje6543 Uhm.... because she passed on? Rest in peace?

[@ltcolumbo9708]

A gallant effort...meaning the Soviets ran a wonderful race

[@donwilliamson9516]

They was doped up

[@jaywyte7218]

@@donwilliamson9516 all truth. Since Vada testing all these top Russian and East European sprinters just disappeared.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@angelmendez6638]

@@donwilliamson9516 tú si que te dopas

[@ew346]

Clicked on this to see her run. Her talent is never forgotten

[@user-bs5hc1tn3w]

Блин, так за наших переживал, даже живот заболел от напряжения. А смотрю в 2019 году. Молодцы наши девушки, на характере выиграли, особенно впечатлил тот круг, где наша девушка американку обогнала!

[@user-ls1ws7ox1s]

То же самое! Знаю результат, а глядя на финиш, весь напрягся! Великий был спорт в СССР !

[@imrichdo]

О́льга Влади́мировна Наза́рова 🏃‍♀

[@jakehone]

Russians...still cheating/doping in 2023.

[@vladimirpenner7499]

​@@imrichdoкак красиво Назарова и Брызгина бегали!!! Загляденье.

[@dbanetworktv]

USA third leg Valerie Brisco did amazing job.. Mrs. Florence as well but I would have loved to see her not ease up and use her "ATP" the first few meters.. But USSR were dominate esp the last leg.. Great Race

[@HEAVYCHEVY409]

sh'e a beast, she walked her down

[@rogercloud6003]

The dope days of track and field.

[@gtrdoc911]

Now we're in the microdosing undetectable days of track and field.

[@timmurphy5736]

@@gtrdoc911 If there is so much microdosing, then why hasn't this record been broken?

[@johnjepsen4243]

Dope daze are still....always have been...since da 1930s. SERIOUSLY. Who cares....more powa to them.lollollollollol

[@Aqua.man045]

I wish we could turn back time...to the good dope days

[@ayelleefun2620]

Look at the Russian And German women, men? Or steroids, They are working on new and improved performance enhancements drugs as we can imagine.

[@gabeg2434]

I miss Flo Jo. She was truly amazing!

[@pocolol8424]

Arse cheeks like a pin cushion

[@TheRealMike1976]

Massive druggie

[@donaldzieglerii270]

The GREATEST to grace the track!

[@DDye-kh4ii]

I followed her & we all loved her since all of us on my high school track team saw her running when she was at UCLA...

[@godman9074]

​@@donaldzieglerii270But they found out in the end she was taking drugs

[@Vivungisport]

Oh man! That was juicy 😊👍

[@garrison6863]

One of the greatest races ever. Both the USA and USSR broke the world record. Both Brygina and Flo Jo ran about 48.1, tremendous times. Nazarova was out of this world. The commentator actually said she might be running "too fast." I think she might have come in at under 48 seconds.

[@trippytrellis7033]

"And here she comes!!!"😂😂😂

[@Haraka111]

And just think 48.1 400m split that was her 10th race of the games think about that she ran for 100m all of them under 11 seconds she broke the 200 meter record two times and still split 48.1

[@Haraka111]

@@trippytrellis7033 question tell me to accomplishments you had tell me when you ever ran in the Olympics since you were in The Laughing business that was Flo-Jo 10th race of those games she split 48 what's your fastest split... cornball ass Islander

[@robertlonergan49]

Ffs, they were both doped to the eyeballs. Who cares what they do

[@robjanko3010]

Yep the greatest illegal race ever, surprising how fast you can run with a bit of lab help

[@pastina000]

WOW !!!!!....This is the only race in Olympic history where all the runners were Drug Free, pity the 2 commentators were DOPED UP.

[@samo-tv6ut]

😂😂😂😂

[@lukasfontana7589]

ahahahhahahahha! you are right, a farce from the beginning. They called the race as if the Americans were going to win 2 or 3 times...probably they were on a trip!

[@dc1397]

Flo is so good it didn't even look like she was trying...and still set a pr for her leg. Amazing

[@beholdtheworld8900]

right... i felt like she was playing... wasnt running seriously... like she was supposed to los... nevermind...

[@666dr]

You don't set personal bests in a bloody relay..It was a rolling start..Flo had every chance to gun down Olga from behind but couldn't do it.. Olga most certainly took the sting out of Florence up the back straight and around the bend...No way she was going to run down the 400m Olympic champion..Watch the 4x400m World Cup 1985 and see Koch do it to the same Russian..

[@dc1397]

@davidryan4742 good thing they don't use timers to see how each do in their legs then. That would be stupid.

[@earlshannon1048]

One of the greatest voices in American sports your missed Charlie!

[@kurtfrancis4621]

Are you serious?

[@joerandall5025]

I want to know,WHY WASNT THE ANNOUNCERS PRE TESTED for Steriods,prior to entering the announcer booth.!!!!!

[@ltlarrow1]

"you can just tell she's gathering herself!"

[@LitCentralMillennialXLIII]

Denean Howard is my coach at COC :) great first leg her go USA!!

[@wswillett]

Women's World 4x400 meter relay record: 3:15.17....USA Boys High School National record...3:07.40

[@pcm3721]

I ran the 400 relay in jr high & high school, both as the anchor… very intense race & you have to give it your ALL… p.s. we NEVER lost our run

[@spidey-tron7827]

The great Flojo's stride and body language looked like a pork chop at a Jewish wedding dinner = Odd. What an epic race with the 100 and 200 meter gold medalist(Flojo) vs the 400 meter gold medalist(Bryzgina). Speed vs speed and stamina. Now one of my favorite races ever. So beautiful !!!

[@dennisrobinson8008]

She gave her best for her team and 48.1 ain't no joke.

[@steveharris5008]

don't get your simile...

[@dcc-randomstorieswithmel7424]

The energy in that stadium was INSANE!!! I understand why the athletes were complaining about tokyo,that cheer can improve your performance

[@godman9074]

Yes but in the end they found out she was taking drugs

[@abnzg]

man, Flojo was DOPE in her prime. I must be on DRUGS for ever doubting it. The way she INJECTED herself into this race is amazing. She's running at the speed of an aSTEROID impact.

[@GroverJ83]

I doubt most of the women on the Usa,Soviet and East German track teams were clean back then. Not a coincident that so many track records from this era hold up despite improvements in conditioning,training and shoe technology.

[@Boo-hb7qj]

@@GroverJ83 it wasn’t proven she was on anything so let it go!! Your not the anti doping agency of the past 😂

[@matthewstylianou8363]

As you said.....You must be on drugs and that's your problem!

[@ocondowhite4635]

@@Boo-hb7qj Marion Jones didnt NOT test positive for any drugs eighter

[@rajiv5802]

She ran out of life man because she accelerated on a permanent high..

[@ConsciousFBA]

two 49 somethings and two 48 somethings....wow! That record is probably safe.

[@yanbibiya]

Drugs

[@andrewbeldecos9758]

@@yanbibiya Yep...and sadly probably not just the Soviets.

[@garrison6863]

I watch this now once a week. Man Olga Nazarova and Bryzgina were awesome. The announcers were just so biased, praising the Americans while the Russians were blowing out the record.

[@basakboy]

they were clairvoyants. they knew that russian athletes were doping.

[@ralphbourgeois5875]

@@basakboy Yeah and the Americans which had Flo Jo and Brisco Hooks were not also doping, put down the tin foil hat.

[@rolandgreen7484]

@@basakboy Yes running against the clean American team let by that super clean Flo Jo. Get of the crackpipe.

[@vladgrishin6]

Были времена. Наши девушки притаскивали американок к их национальному рекорду. А сами были мировыми рекордсменками. Браво!

[@user-uy8mb2hg7h]

Допинга не хватило на 400 метров умерла рано вот вам и все ее рекорды у Бена Джонсона нашли у нее нет кто спонсировал антидопинговый комитет США мне ее жаль из нее сделали подопытного кролика

[@viktorfisher403]

@@user-uy8mb2hg7h , да, вы правы, там абсолютно некрасивая, мутная история с ее рекордами. Увы, не нашлось для США своего " родченкова", который вытряс бы из американской легкой атлетики всю грязь, а ее там, по моему мнению, до сих пор навалом. Но они очень умело воспользовались перебежчиком - острие скандала пронзило российскую легкую атлетику, а а сами они остались как бы не при чем.

[@user-qr2gp1oo5g]

Болел за наших Советских спорцменок и получил огромное удовольствие, браво СССР!!!!!)))))

[@dionerhodes1308]

Omg Flo was one of the best!! Much love..💖💖👏👏🙏💃

[@Sverhu]

Девчонки выйграли! Мировой рекорд! Все спокойно! Буднично! Без лишнего пафоса!

[@lindaselander9602]

Sorry, bt yr athletes were doped up!

[@RainmanUz]

@@lindaselander9602 so were yours!

[@lindaselander9602]

@@RainmanUz hw do u kno?🙄🤔

[@reallifehack4790]

dopers

[@angelmendez6638]

@@lindaselander9602 clan Joyner....DOPPING KINGS

[@JG-tr9py]

Great performance by FloJo! I think that was the first time that she ran in a 400 meter race. She was one of the greatest. May she rest in peace.

[@kalevala29]

the 400 is hard, you could really see her exhaustion at the end. the shorter sprints are where she was best.

[@glessor]

Nope, she ran her PR of 50.89s in the 400 meters 3 years before that.

[@ronniejohnson196]

@@-The-Mon Flo Jo's 100m WR was Set earlier in 1988; In The US Olympic Trials At Indianapolis, Indiana.

[@WalkerOne]

48.1 split for someone that hadn't trained for that event. Amazing.

[@mazdaman007]

I love flojo. The fact that she left this world so soon,jus shows that God blessed us wit her presence then took her. Becuz humans were very ungrateful for such a treasure. No other female sprinter gives me goosebumps like flojo. Usain Bolt is also a natural treasure. Bless her soul.❤️❤️

[@shaunkelly9860]

She was killed by the drugs that made her an Olympic champion.

[@Aaron-he3qd]

It’s so funny hearing the names of the countries that don’t exist anymore

[@dnaaslyamova9383]

You also won't exist in the world in 50 years

[@norcalpinoy9618]

@@dnaaslyamova9383 we won't be here in 100 years..

[@REDVECTOR31]

The best! Советский спорт лучший, любо-дорого смотреть!

[@lindaselander9602]

Ya, the best wen yr doped up on steroids, ah, no nt the best!!

[@user-hr3zn2hw5r]

Да

[@lindaselander9602]

@@user-hr3zn2hw5r i cant read russian!

[@user-hr3zn2hw5r]

@@lindaselander9602 i english

[@lindaselander9602]

@@user-hr3zn2hw5r i meant back when it the Soviet Union, not now, i didmt mean any disrespect!😁🙂

[@Max-zv1bu]

Very Interesting match up. That was a tall order for Flo Jo, taking on 400m champion from behind. Flo Jo ran a very calculated race. She could have easily blown past the Russian in the first 200m. She was actually closing on a bit at the end.

[@monica012077]

Max101 Well, Olha Vladykina wasn't a 200m runner. As good as Flo Jo was, she wouldn't win a 400m race against any of these women. Much less Marita Koch or Jarmila Kratochvilova.

[@onlyadro5692]

Flo Jo was injured in this event that's why she didn't win the gold but she could have went for the WR if she wasn't hurt.

[@waynehentley4332]

@@onlyadro5692 Injured? In your mind only?🤔🤔

[@onlyadro5692]

@@waynehentley4332 look it up

[@saintsone7877]

@@onlyadro5692 Injured and almost a world record in the leg of the 4x 400m and you will say she was clean. She rarely ran 400m in international competitions yet raced a specialist who also won the Gold medal and was very competitive injured. Have heard of parochialism before but this is ridiculous. Only way she could be competitive fully fit is with "gear". To do so injured must have some really good "gear".

[@percyfree9831]

Flo a beautiful runner,trained superbly with fine style ,was suprised when able to defeat winner

[@hermanirascible3310]

Somehow it felt that the Soviets were running for their lives !

[@user-wz8hn5gs2q]

Мощь наших девчонок. СССР.

[@CaugustusWhite]

I have no idea what you wrote but I like it !!!

[@numbers7n]

That’s Russian for ‘the steroids worked’.

[@paulzarate22369]

Flo Jo you'll always be the greatest in my book. You have the heart of the champion always and forever. The fire that burns just like your spirit hotter than ever. You're the greatest

[@Xfactories]

On what planet did they think Flojo would beat the 400m gold medallist?

[@billalexander8011]

She ran a 48.1. Its not like it is easy to find someone to run faster.

[@trippytrellis7033]

"...and here she comes!!!"😂😂😂

[@noteynote4873]

Exactly... even the commenter thought FloJo can win. But she kept up her pace.... Flojo is really that good.

[@stephenbuffery180]

Planet flo jo juice

[@aspenrebel]

Earth!!

[@FashionKilla_718]

Rest In Heavenly Peace Flo Jo G.O.A.T. 🙏🏾🙌🏾✊🏾💫💯🇺🇸

[@user-dm7vz1mr3i]

СЛАВА СОВЕТСКИМ СПОРТСМЕНАМ - ЧЕМПИОНАМ!!

[@beachdirector5864]

Слава СССР

[@vladislove8677]

Сашке Скочковой тренироваться и тренироваться...

[@granvillewalkerjr.8394]

It is hard to accept that our best wasn't good enough for gold that day. Every leg our ladies ran was 49 seconds or better, but the Soviets knew anything less than their strongest effort wouldn't get it done.

[@rossogden9920]

Uh, no. The Soviets knew that they had better take even more steroids than our team.....which records indicate they did. There is nothing to admire about a bunch of cheating athletes conspiring to out cheat each other.

[@arnietapp423]

@@rossogden9920 So true ..... They are still running 2 seconds behind this more than 30 yrs later .... Their women and Our American women are ALL roiding their brains out .....

[@degreeO]

@@rossogden9920 Flojo was almost certainly doping.

[@eastwest9819]

Bullshit! Still so disappointed? )))

[@rolandgreen7484]

@@rossogden9920LOL Flo Jo and Valerie Brisco Hooks are 2 of the biggest drug cheats in history. Almost guarantee you they were pumped full of more horse pills than even the likely doping Soviets and East Germans all combined. They even killed Flo Jo super young.

[@chillbro2275]

this is my favorite olympics, thoough there have been other good ones. This was an intense race! I'd forgotten the outcome.

[@fahrudincatovic8133]

the best relay ever for both USSR and USA.both teams broke WR, and this is something.

[@kesaiawati9521]

What a run from Valerie Brisco Hooks💖💖💖💖

[@ronniejohnson196]

Got That Right!

[@ivornworrell]

Much respect, to all of these female runners.

[@yaohuasu7037]

Fue una final olimpica muy bonita que estará en el recuerdo de los amantes del atletismo, la Ex URSS en ese entonces con una cuarteta fenomenal, y unas de las ultimas carreras de la ya difunta Florence Flo¡

[@sh1659]

God first. Prayer's the key, , love the thumbnail. Thank Christ! Such a wonderful legacy.

[@RhetoricalMuse]

Tell you what - go to the track 'pray to your specific god' and run. Maybe you will break the world record..... Oh wait....that requires good genetics, hard work and maybe some drugs. Fucking brianwashed theists.

[@steelermia]

1:38 diane shouldn't panic .. nazarova may be going too fast .. she may die in the straight away .. nazarova proceeds to pull away lol

[@northwestprof60]

yeah, it was a homer call, bad call

[@KmacFIRE]

She caught her at the end

[@steelermia]

@@KmacFIRE I think you're referring to flo jo .. slightly but bryzgina held steady to win which is all that counts .. dixon never caught up to nazarova

[@cushitepeople9165]

But the Germans & Russians were on substances!!!!!

[@royestondsouza4069]

@@cushitepeople9165 so were some Americans. Its unfair to point out to a certain part of the world when everybody is doing it......question is...how many get caught and how many sneak through undetected.

[@aviator317]

I was there at the 88 Games The events were cheap to attend.

[@charliesouthgate6125]

So what

[@MrA1582000]

Flo Jo is my favorite all time athlete. Gone way too soon.

[@killpaleface3279]

@Steve Bonningtin you have no proof fuck boy

[@simonhindley65]

And we all know why.

[@killpaleface3279]

@@simonhindley65 bitch why? After the 1954 Olympics they start testing for steroids

[@sandersson2813]

Most likely because she was a cheat. Athletics records from this era should be purged.

[@hoagey1580]

Drug cheat

[@MrStevecro]

Bryzgina knew the threat and put 1.5 to 2 metres on Flo-JO between 50 and 250 metres which broke The American to an extent, at least limiting her to gaining back only a metre. A run of guts and determination by Bryzgina

[@truth8508]

Drugged up Russians.

[@truth8508]

@Cliff Moore Nope. Not all were and Russia is off the chart. As of January 2018, the IOC had sanctioned 43 Russian athletes from the 2014 Winter Olympics and banned them from competing in the 2018 edition and all other future Olympic Games as part of the Oswald Commission. On 7 August 2016, the International Paralympic Committee announced that it had voted unanimously to ban the entire Russian Paralympic team from competing at the 2016 Summer. On 9 December 2016, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren published the second part of his independent report. The investigation claimed that from 2011 to 2015, more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports (including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports) were involved in a cover-up. They have state sponsored doping and have for decades and these are just the ones caught. The Russian don't lead this event. The USA does. Russian women in this race look like dudes because of the steroid use. The over usage is so obvious it's absurd to suggest, "hey they're all the same" Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States (USA) 6 4 0 10 2 East Germany (GDR) 2 1 1 4 3 Soviet Union (URS) 2 0 1 3

[@ralphbourgeois5875]

@@truth8508 LOL as if Flo Dope Death was not drugged up. She is the only one who used so many drugs she paid the rightful price, death before 40. I would piss on her grave.

[@corymajor7811]

@@truth8508 Yes running against the "clean" U.S team with such known non dopers as Flo Jo and Brisco Hooks. Anymore comedy to share?

[@truth8508]

@@corymajor7811 Where's your Russian team today? That's the biggest joke. Banned year after year for state level controlled doping.

[@larrydart7124]

"She can run from behind the whole way!"...and she did.

[@johndoe-pk6tj]

Damn, that's funny!!

[@closetoyourheart]

🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@KB-lw1lr]

This is actually really nice.

[@cherylnance-ali5824]

I remember this so well.

[@lgarcia67]

Back when the Soviets and East Germans were still fielding these EPO super athletes

[@crashcox]

Yeah, i just love GDR athletes, too bad current Germany athletes are not strong enough, in fact I seldom hear Germany winning in track and field in Olympic or World competition.

[@ericholt6529]

To be fair it was everyone, not just the Germans and Soviets

[@watchiingunow618]

And the Americans were completely pure right? ;-)

[@lgarcia67]

@@watchiingunow618 always lol ... no of course not. EP drugs are a pervasive issue in Elite sports. that was a state sponsored program made for political propaganda. Not that it exonerates the americans who use them though

[@mellymel6624]

You mean back when they were doping..

[@nuwandalton]

"And here she comes" Arguably the best sport-related joke ever 😅

[@nuwandalton]

@uknow who Should I?

[@jeffanthony1706]

"And here she comes" ........silence...... 😂😂

[@trippytrellis7033]

@@jeffanthony1706"And here she comes!" The line landed on American Film Institute's 2005 list of the greatest sports quotes of all time.😂😂😂

[@imtysjamir6963]

🤣 🤣 🤣 Smart move, very smart move by Flo Jo. She never came😂😂😂. Joke of that century

[@nuwandalton]

@@imtysjamir6963 "She's just gathering herself, you can just feel it" :D

[@rusforestry]

Наши девчонки были прекрасны! Они лучшие в мире!

[@kimik01889]

Where you been?? USA and Jamaica takes EVERYTHING😂

[@GeneGreenDeTouchable]

​@@kimik01889And Where u r now? Jamaica takes it all😂

[@sivayamsiva9343]

Wonderful performance congratulations 👍

[@user-pn7mp9bk6u]

Болела за наших советских девочек! Горжусь , что я родом из СССР ! Молодцы!!!

[@stolli48]

🇩🇪🇺🇦❤

[@truth8508]

The women's world record in the 4x4 was broken 15 times from 1969 to 1988. This is the last one. Each record was broken by either the Communist East Germans or USSR except for 1 or 2 in the late 60's. By 1996 much of the testing for doping was figured out and, amazingly, Russia and Germany, not only never broke another record, they never finished in the top two in any race of any merit, Olympics or World Championships. In fact, just 1 third place finish in 1996. The USA has won every Olympic women's 4x4 since 1996.

[@dudermcdude9245]

the US dopes

[@RedDiamondXYZ]

US dopes.. hah

[@kenpinbasar6455]

That mean America has best steroid athletes than any other countries.

[@kevinhunter7235]

Maybe because there was no East Germany after 1989. The wall came down and Germany was one country again. "Russia" is incorrect here, it was the Soviet Union, which also broke up in the early 90's.

[@truth8508]

@@kevinhunter7235 No, that's not why. You're suggesting that name changes in countries precluded runners in those regions from performing in track. Ridiculous to suggest that taking the wall down affected the biology of the runners. In fact, Germany gained the advantage of having East and West Berlin. We're all aware of the name changes and we're also aware that it doesn't matter what you call them. My point stands. It's irrelevant that the Soviet Union became Russia in 1991. It's the same people who magically lost all their talent because drug testing became required.

[@brianwesonga9589]

Most interesting race of all time!

[@heimarpehk6400]

Exactly

[@DomGABRI3L]

At least the game was fair back in 1988, everybody was on drugs. They had to ban Ben Johnson though, the guy went too far, he was so pump up that even Pablo Escobar was worried for his health.

[@gibsonawuku2710]

😂😂😂😂😂 this is the most hilarious thing I've heard allday thank you 😂😂😂

[@jonemalo2704]

😂😂😂👍

[@slvalive]

I know huh? Lol

[@jsmariani4180]

I don't know. The East German women were practically men.

[@SuperElott]

To funny Gammelthorpe! Pablo!😁

[@akgoldbear7669]

I was born in the Soviet Union and graduated from high school in the Soviet Union, and I'm really proud of it!

[@Chaturanger]

Russian girls were on steroids : this is Russia

[@markcaldwell6816]

You soviets are the biggest losers and the whole world knows its.. Fuck you!

[@rosscarter2793]

A shameful history. Russia is still engaged in cheating and has shown that they have no intention of stopping.

[@waynehentley4332]

Whose problem is that?🤔🤔🤔