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

Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the BBC’s Katty Kay has sat down with some of the most legendary athletes from previous Olympic games for in-depth conversations about their lives, sports, and what it takes to succeed at the highest level.
This week, Katty chats to Olympic legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee - who has held the Olympic record for women’s long jump and heptathlon for nearly 40 years.
They discuss Joyner-Kersee’s early beginnings, her rise to Olympic success, and what inspired her to return to her hometown and support her community.
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  • @Dr.Aiken-Isaac
    @Dr.Aiken-Isaac12 күн бұрын

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

  • @nancysmith3400
    @nancysmith340016 күн бұрын

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

  • @boris8787
    @boris878716 күн бұрын

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

  • @pnutbutrncrackers
    @pnutbutrncrackers13 күн бұрын

    What a great job this interviewer did. A+

  • @michaelroot6064
    @michaelroot606417 күн бұрын

    She's an American Icon history will never forget her

  • @Censortubes

    @Censortubes

    17 күн бұрын

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

  • @zamboangaprankster9058
    @zamboangaprankster905816 күн бұрын

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

  • @anthonypatrick3622
    @anthonypatrick362213 күн бұрын

    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!!!❤

  • @shereenferguson338
    @shereenferguson33813 күн бұрын

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

  • @0-Elias-0
    @0-Elias-016 күн бұрын

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

  • @kevinrodrigues5190
    @kevinrodrigues519016 күн бұрын

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

  • @briandesilva1834
    @briandesilva183417 күн бұрын

    Three Words: A Class Act!!!!

  • @edielesousa1506
    @edielesousa150617 күн бұрын

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

  • @rickyrandall9978
    @rickyrandall997817 күн бұрын

    What a incredible lady

  • @dpelpal
    @dpelpal17 күн бұрын

    Class act!

  • @charleshenry8194
    @charleshenry819411 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @lovelypatricedaniels3173
    @lovelypatricedaniels317311 күн бұрын

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

  • @ellabella7653
    @ellabella765316 күн бұрын

    What a lovely interview with a golden athlete.

  • @robertcaskey9653
    @robertcaskey965315 күн бұрын

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

  • @felixowusu4983
    @felixowusu498317 күн бұрын

    Well done, you are genuinely a sportswoman of substance.

  • @888JesusChrist
    @888JesusChrist17 күн бұрын

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

  • @cappyjones

    @cappyjones

    17 күн бұрын

    Deep 🙄

  • @scipioafricanus4875
    @scipioafricanus487516 күн бұрын

    Inspirational athlete, great interviewer

  • @ZuriDsWellness
    @ZuriDsWellness11 күн бұрын

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

  • @eMCEe131
    @eMCEe13116 күн бұрын

    enjoyable interview... touching 💐

  • @user-iy5tm3ey4t
    @user-iy5tm3ey4t14 күн бұрын

    Love, love her! So inspirational! 😊

  • @TarotandOracleHealing
    @TarotandOracleHealing11 күн бұрын

    Thank you 🙏🏾

  • @bobwest4795
    @bobwest479515 күн бұрын

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

  • @hidiyakikliuka2792
    @hidiyakikliuka279217 күн бұрын

    is she related to Florence Joyner?

  • @oladipoajayi3191

    @oladipoajayi3191

    17 күн бұрын

    Same Flo-Jo, she married keysee.

  • @ellabella7653

    @ellabella7653

    16 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @jenniferatkinson5519
    @jenniferatkinson551917 күн бұрын

    Legend

  • @purpleness64
    @purpleness6416 күн бұрын

    Champion!!

  • @irinachuchueva3181
    @irinachuchueva318112 күн бұрын

    Amazing Lady!

  • @natashanjohnsonedd
    @natashanjohnsonedd14 күн бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @Cacofonixravi
    @Cacofonixravi16 күн бұрын

    Wonder lady

  • @KenJames9911
    @KenJames991117 күн бұрын

    🌹🌹💖💖🏆🏆

  • @jollymolly2521
    @jollymolly252111 күн бұрын

    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. 🤣🤣

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    @Subspace_tripminefromhell14 күн бұрын

    Pov you missclicked:

  • @Tengetenge13
    @Tengetenge1316 күн бұрын

    Respect Ronaldo

  • @ThomasFromTN
    @ThomasFromTN16 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @randyskillings5586
    @randyskillings558617 күн бұрын

    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

    @ThomasFromTN

    16 күн бұрын

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

  • @randyskillings5586

    @randyskillings5586

    16 күн бұрын

    @@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

    @ThomasFromTN

    15 күн бұрын

    @@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.

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    @Pogoproject16 күн бұрын

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  • @cappyjones
    @cappyjones17 күн бұрын

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

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    17 күн бұрын

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    17 күн бұрын

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    @auro198616 күн бұрын

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  • @richardkent2014
    @richardkent201417 күн бұрын

    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

    @kimh5566

    16 күн бұрын

    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

    @ThomasFromTN

    15 күн бұрын

    @@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?

  • @jimthompson9370
    @jimthompson937016 күн бұрын

    Will Katy only interview coloured folks and gays?

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    @madcircle0461

    16 күн бұрын

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

  • @chrisg9840
    @chrisg984016 күн бұрын

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

  • @madcircle0461

    @madcircle0461

    16 күн бұрын

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

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    @JohnLennon-ft1gj16 күн бұрын

    Is it a man

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    @kimh5566

    16 күн бұрын

    No. Of course not.

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