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- Jackie Joyner-Kersee is
- one of the worldΓÇÖs greatest
- female athletes. As a little
- girl, she dreamed of
- competing in the Olympics.
- At the 1988 Olympics, Jackie won her first
- gold medal, in the seven-event heptathlon,
- and set a world record by scoring 7,291
- points. She then won the gold medal in the
- long jump five days later. At the 1992
- Olympics, she won another gold medal in
- the heptathlon and a bronze medal in the
- long jump.
-
- Jackie became interested in sports at a youth
- community center in her hometown of East
- St. Louis, Illinois. Her training there helped
- her excel in track and field, basketball,
- volleyball, and soccer. She accepted a
-