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Joyner-Kersee completes huge leap

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 30, 2000

"She is tremendously ego-less for a sport and an event that requires ego. Any sprint-based athlete runs on ego; it is the oil of the system," says Dwight Stones, former world record holder in the high jump, about two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. The early sixties were considered a modern Camelot, with a vigorous President energizing the country and a beautiful wife standing by his side. It was into such a feeling of prosperity tha ...

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