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

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  • Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
  • 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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Комментарии • 79

  • @nancysmith3400
    @nancysmith3400 15 дней назад +10

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

  • @boris8787
    @boris8787 15 дней назад +7

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

  • @Dr.Aiken-Isaac
    @Dr.Aiken-Isaac 11 дней назад +4

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

  • @pnutbutrncrackers
    @pnutbutrncrackers 12 дней назад +3

    What a great job this interviewer did. A+

  • @michaelroot6064
    @michaelroot6064 16 дней назад +21

    She's an American Icon history will never forget her

    • @Censortubes
      @Censortubes 16 дней назад +1

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

  • @zamboangaprankster9058
    @zamboangaprankster9058 15 дней назад +6

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

  • @anthonypatrick3622
    @anthonypatrick3622 13 дней назад +4

    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
    @shereenferguson338 13 дней назад +3

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

  • @0-Elias-0
    @0-Elias-0 15 дней назад +10

    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
    @kevinrodrigues5190 15 дней назад +5

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

  • @briandesilva1834
    @briandesilva1834 16 дней назад +14

    Three Words: A Class Act!!!!

  • @edielesousa1506
    @edielesousa1506 16 дней назад +5

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

  • @rickyrandall9978
    @rickyrandall9978 16 дней назад +13

    What a incredible lady

  • @dpelpal
    @dpelpal 16 дней назад +6

    Class act!

  • @charleshenry8194
    @charleshenry8194 10 дней назад +2

    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.

  • @ellabella7653
    @ellabella7653 16 дней назад +8

    What a lovely interview with a golden athlete.

  • @lovelypatricedaniels3173
    @lovelypatricedaniels3173 10 дней назад +2

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

  • @robertcaskey9653
    @robertcaskey9653 15 дней назад +3

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

  • @felixowusu4983
    @felixowusu4983 16 дней назад +5

    Well done, you are genuinely a sportswoman of substance.

  • @scipioafricanus4875
    @scipioafricanus4875 15 дней назад +5

    Inspirational athlete, great interviewer

  • @888JesusChrist
    @888JesusChrist 16 дней назад +6

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

  • @ZuriDsWellness
    @ZuriDsWellness 10 дней назад +2

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

  • @eMCEe131
    @eMCEe131 15 дней назад +5

    enjoyable interview... touching 💐

  • @user-iy5tm3ey4t
    @user-iy5tm3ey4t 13 дней назад +1

    Love, love her! So inspirational! 😊

  • @TarotandOracleHealing
    @TarotandOracleHealing 10 дней назад +1

    Thank you 🙏🏾

  • @bobwest4795
    @bobwest4795 14 дней назад +1

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

  • @hidiyakikliuka2792
    @hidiyakikliuka2792 16 дней назад +5

    is she related to Florence Joyner?

    • @oladipoajayi3191
      @oladipoajayi3191 16 дней назад +1

      Same Flo-Jo, she married keysee.

    • @ellabella7653
      @ellabella7653 16 дней назад +7

      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
    @jenniferatkinson5519 16 дней назад +5

    Legend

  • @purpleness64
    @purpleness64 15 дней назад +1

    Champion!!

  • @irinachuchueva3181
    @irinachuchueva3181 11 дней назад +1

    Amazing Lady!

  • @natashanjohnsonedd
    @natashanjohnsonedd 13 дней назад +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @Cacofonixravi
    @Cacofonixravi 15 дней назад +1

    Wonder lady

  • @KenJames9911
    @KenJames9911 16 дней назад +2

    🌹🌹💖💖🏆🏆

  • @jollymolly2521
    @jollymolly2521 10 дней назад

    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. 🤣🤣

  • @Subspace_tripminefromhell
    @Subspace_tripminefromhell 13 дней назад

    Pov you missclicked:

  • @Tengetenge13
    @Tengetenge13 15 дней назад

    Respect Ronaldo

  • @ThomasFromTN
    @ThomasFromTN 15 дней назад +3

    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
    @randyskillings5586 16 дней назад +4

    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 15 дней назад +1

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

    • @randyskillings5586
      @randyskillings5586 15 дней назад

      @@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 14 дней назад

      @@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.

  • @Pogoproject
    @Pogoproject 16 дней назад +3

    Jimmy savilles Lawyer is prime minister
    You're watching a movie 🍿🍿 NCSWIC NOTHING

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    @user-rg7uh9se4c 16 дней назад

    OT!!
    Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations --WOR and WLVI!

  • @cappyjones
    @cappyjones 16 дней назад

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

  • @joerogain5025
    @joerogain5025 16 дней назад +3

    ''Stormy honey bunch, you remind me of my daughter, Ivanka.''
    Donald tRUMP

    • @Censortubes
      @Censortubes 16 дней назад +1

      Poor ccp bot

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      @joerogain5025 16 дней назад

      ''E Jean Carroll honey bunch, you remind me of my 2nd wife, Marla Maples.''
      Donald tRUMP

    • @Censortubes
      @Censortubes 16 дней назад +1

      @@joerogain5025 it looks like you earn ramen per post eh? Or is it daily.

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      @joerogain5025 16 дней назад

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  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n 16 дней назад

    Гардрикта мугазот боракта каскрот ияхта гуфраниякта гудракт...

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 16 дней назад

    bbc is the place to avoid dope test, isn't it?

  • @richardkent2014
    @richardkent2014 16 дней назад +4

    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 15 дней назад +3

      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 14 дней назад +2

      @@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
    @jimthompson9370 16 дней назад +1

    Will Katy only interview coloured folks and gays?

    • @madcircle0461
      @madcircle0461 15 дней назад +1

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

  • @chrisg9840
    @chrisg9840 15 дней назад

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

    • @madcircle0461
      @madcircle0461 15 дней назад +1

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

  • @JohnLennon-ft1gj
    @JohnLennon-ft1gj 15 дней назад +1

    Is it a man

    • @kimh5566
      @kimh5566 15 дней назад +1

      No. Of course not.

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    @Johnny_Caruthers 16 дней назад +5

    BBC coverage of French election: "far right far right far right far right far right far right far right...faaaaar right".. yawn 🥱