Author: Roger

As I sit here watching the 2016 Olympics, a name came floating back to me out of the long-ago land of once great but-now-mostly-surpassed heroes. Watching the women sprinters this week has been a pure joy! . . . . This was no ordinary champion but a champion for the ages! She will be revered in Track and Field history for as long as the sport endures . . . . Her nobility of spirit and ennobling physical perfection could not exist so close together forever—her heart has burst from the strain and she has passed away from us . . . . Let her soul roam free and wild wherever she pleases, that we may remember her always just as she was: sweet, free, and wild—our bird, our invincible hummingbird, our sweet dear Flo Jo.