Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee on overcoming adversity and winning gold | BBC News

[@Dr.Aiken-Isaac]

I appreciate how curious & respectful the interviewer was. Jackie shined … an amazing athlete.🙏🏾

[@boris8787]

There are so many dedicated athletes who deserve a mention - far too many to name. 🏅🏅🏅

[@anthonypatrick3622]

Awesome interview with the greatest female athlete of all time. Would love to see more of Jackie...great American story. She's beautiful inside and out...thank you for the memories Jackie!!!❤

[@nancysmith3400]

🤗Thank you, that was a wonderful interview. I learned so much about Jackie. She is an amazing athlete and a very inspiring women!!!

[@shereenferguson338]

Jackie Joyner Kersee, absolutely amazing! Truly the greatest!🎉🎉

[@lovelypatricedaniels3173]

Awesome! Congratulations for all your hard work and dedication to the sports Mrs. Jackie. This was a great interview ❤

[@ZuriDsWellness]

Ms J, U r the original Goat. Period!!! 👍🏾👌🏾👏🏾💪🏾🫶🏾🦋😘💕

[@zamboangaprankster9058]

Wow!...long time no see, what a Classy Woman, still in great shape!

[@michaelroot6064]

She's an American Icon history will never forget her

[@Censortubes]

She’s been forgot. That’s why they are pushing this.

[@pnutbutrncrackers]

What a great job this interviewer did. A+

[@kevinrodrigues5190]

THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL INTERVIEW I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! Thank u bbc. Its just so beautiful.

[@0-Elias-0]

Congrats to Jackie Joyner-Kersee (one of the greats). It's good to hear that she's been helping to build up her hometown.

[@briandesilva1834]

Three Words: A Class Act!!!!

[@charleshenry8194]

JJK is awesome. And anyone watching track and field would know that she has been very supportive of Anna Hall the next great American heptathlete. You don’t often see the greats physically present to cheer on the next generation maybe a few give an interview saying good things. A class act all the way and 4 medals in 4 consecutive Olympics with a 36 year old record and no hint of being drugged up? In 7 grueling events over 2 days. No question the GOAT of female athletes. Glad to see this long of an interview with her.

[@rickyrandall9978]

What a incredible lady

[@felixowusu4983]

Well done, you are genuinely a sportswoman of substance.

[@edielesousa1506]

🇧🇷Brasil///Jackie Joyner-Kersee 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 excelente atleta. Sensacional no heptatlo e no salto em distância.

[@tailoredsuits]

Fantastic interview, thank you for asking great questions ! I get to see her speak in a few days and am beyond thrilled. She’s such an incredible human! ❤

[@ellabella7653]

What a lovely interview with a golden athlete.

[@dpelpal]

Class act!

[@just_in_time-k7]

I was born 1988 and was named after her... Her first name and Joy from second name same as my father's name was given to me.. I'm so so sooo glad and happy she still holds that record❤❤❤😍🥰 truly special ❤❤❤God Bless❤❤❤❤

[@scipioafricanus4875]

Inspirational athlete, great interviewer

[@eMCEe131]

enjoyable interview... touching 💐

[@888JesusChrist]

Wow, that's impressive. Greatness is not defined by race, gender, or income. It is defined by your actions.

[@cappyjones]

Deep 🙄

[@NancyGlenn-y7c]

Love, love her! So inspirational! 😊

[@robertcaskey9653]

I meet Jackie 35 years ago cal state north riges and she was so sweet and kind ralo 59 Pasadena California

[@choosewelltravelClub]

Great heart warming interview. Thank you.

[@jenniferatkinson5519]

Legend

[@bobwest4795]

Thanks for this great interview! She is so humble...awe-inspiring!

[@TarotandOracleHealing]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@purpleness64]

Champion!!

[@irinachuchueva3181]

Amazing Lady!

[@hidiyakikliuka2792]

is she related to Florence Joyner?

[@oladipoajayi3191]

Same Flo-Jo, she married keysee.

[@ellabella7653]

Florence Griffith Joyner was an American track and field athlete who died in 1998, aged 38. Her cause of death was suffocation during a severe epileptic seizure while she was asleep. Her events were the 100 and 200 meters. She married 1984 Olympic triple jump champion Al Joyner, whom Griffith had first met at the 1980 Olympic Trials. Through her marriage to Joyner she was sister-in-law to track and field athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

[@jollymolly2521]

World Athletics has the gall to have a poll on their IG page asking who's the greatest Olympic heptathlete - JJK, Thiam or Johnson-Thompson and it's the most ridiculous athletics poll I've ever seen. There is Jackie Joyner-Kersee - and the rest. The only woman to even get close to JJK's Olympic Record - which is the World Record - is JJK. I get that they're trying to hype the upcoming Olympics, but they need to choose another lane because JJK shut down traffic in the Heptathlon lane 40 years ago. 🤣🤣

[@Cacofonixravi]

Wonder lady

[@ThomasFromTN]

I am struck by how few of the comments on this video have any relation to the person Jackie Joyner-Kersee... And even fewer have anything to do in relation to sports. More to the point... I think it's credible to speculate that those who are invoking narratives having nothing to do with those topics are exactly the source of people who complain when someone else they perceive as "always making it about" something that doesn't happen anymore... And doesn't deserve to be discussed.

[@natashanjohnsonedd]

❤❤❤

[@randyskillings5586]

It’s sad that athletes of today don’t possess the humility and class that this great lady has and shows us. Jackie Joyner Kersee has her feet firmly planted on the ground and that is why she is a great person.

[@ThomasFromTN]

I'm surprised you didn't say her parents must have raised her right.

[@randyskillings5586]

@@ThomasFromTN Forgive me for being a little old fashioned. I believe that people can make a choice when they are on the national stage. It’s not a slight against to modern athletes because there are a lot that give back to their communities like Jackie Joyner Kersee. The biggest difference between her and them is that she doesn’t take center stage and promote herself in doing it. That is a person with class.

[@ThomasFromTN]

@@randyskillings5586 There were plenty of colorful characters from the Good Old Days who were capable of self-indulgence of great magnitude...where it simply was not a mechanism in place that pushed narratives about the seamy side of reality onto the front pages. There was an unwritten rule in the press that certain events simply were not to be reported - like Babe Ruth being chased through a moving train by a knife-wielding woman in hot pursuit, right through the car populated by traveling sports writers in tow. Paparrazi then was deployed by the teams and agencies to protect and control narratives...not to catch or even entice celebrities to make provocative statements or engage in provocative antics. Point being - My view is that "Old-Fashioned" can credibly be defined as "Whole Lotta Sh... Going On - That Was Simply Never Exposed As The Reality." And that is even not even countenancing the point - "Class" in the context in which you employ it is rightfully discerned as...subjective. Even more setting aside countenancing - Don't underestimate how proximate in our recollection of "Old Fashioned" we may happen to be...chronologically.

[@ANDY1985UK2011]

Why has so many female world records stood this long when the running shoes and nutrition etc surely must have improved since the 80s?

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[@richardkent2014]

The most iconic athlete in the 20th century.. i guess jesse Owens competing in 1936 berlin summer Olympics winning 7 gold medals wirh hitler watching takes second place today in the world of diversity that was never needed.

[@kimh5566]

The interviewer correctly quoted Sports Illustrated naming her as the greatest female athlete of 20th century. Yes, Jesse Owens is a great icon. However, he won four gold and not seven as you stated. And, of course, he is not a woman. Jackie won the heptathlon at two separate Olympics, plus many other golds and silvers at Olympics, World Championships and other games. She deserves the stated title by any measure.

[@ThomasFromTN]

@@kimh5566 You were 100% correct in your "correction" of the initial commenter's "mistated" facts on...well, on pretty much everything. (Misinformation - something yoiu don't often see "today in the world -full stop - that was never needed." My only question...did "@richardkent2014" strain a muscle (sports allusion) attempting to insinuate the issue of "diversity" into a context where one would scratch one's head insofar as comprehendin WHAT HAS THAT TO DO WITH THIS TOPIC, WHATSOEVER?

[@cappyjones]

Katty Kay shouldn't have done that to her face. 😢

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Will Katy only interview coloured folks and gays?

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Didn’t you know that’s all that leftists care about? All that matters is skin color and homosexuality.

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Is it a man

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No. Of course not.

[@chrisg9840]

And doing this interview with the people who created the racial hierarchy. Kind of an in your face moment.

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You mean cuz the interviewer is white? You are so pathetic.

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