You know you have speed to burn when even your name can’t keep up. She was born Florence Delorez Griffith four days before Christmas in 1959, but the world would come to know her — all too fleetingly, as it would turn out — as ‘Flo-Jo’. And she would change athletics the way Elvis changed music and then culture itself.
Bruce Springsteen rhapsodised about the King in 2012, but he may well have been lauding the woman who first brought the hood to the track, the swagger to the starter’s pistol, and daylight to her competitors. “Elvis gave us full access to a new language,
