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Article: FloJo admirers awed by her talent, stunned by her death.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 21, 1998
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PHILADELPHIA _ So many times, Shilie Turner would walk into his office with the same request, remembers William Penn High School track coach Tim Hickey.
``She wanted to see the tapes of FloJo, over and over and over,'' Hickey said on Monday. ``She'd come in at lunch time. Other kids would want to watch different people. She'd just want to watch FloJo.''
Turner, the great William Penn runner who was shot to death by her mother in 1993, was the biggest FloJo fan on the team in those days, after the 1988 Olympics. But Hickey said all his runners felt the same way about Florence Griffith Joyner, who died on Monday of an apparent heart seizure at age ...