and fast forward, here we are today in the jackie joyner—kersee centre., provide transportation, pick our students up from school, bring them into the centre to get educational support. i want them to find happiness in whatever it is that they're doing, but understand the discipline that it takes, the focus, the commitment, and never giving up. it feels, jackie, like some athletes with an amazing career like yours go on and become kind of celebrities to millions of people around the world. you've come back home to be incredibly important to the people of your community. was that a choice that you made? yes, it was a choice that i made to come back because i think it's just so important that, you know, even when i talk to our young people, they're like, "oh, you should be in hollywood." i'm like, "hollywood is where we make it. "hollywood is right here." you know, and if we're going to grow a community, all of us can't leave, you know, because you would deplete it. and then we won't have a community and we won't have a place to call home. and i have to alw

everybody knows jackie joyner—kersee's love affair with the long jump. yes.n, the olympic record in the long jump. and you set those records almost a0 years ago and they have still not been broken. do you think of yourself as a great athlete when you wake up in the morning? is that how you still see yourself? it's not that i think of myself as being an athlete of yesterday. i am a realist. i understand and even understood during the time of my days of being a competitive athlete, that i wanted to be one of the best. so to be called, you know, one of the greatest, you know, i'm very humble and i'm very honoured, but i know the importance of people who saw the potential in me as a young girl that i did not know that i had. did it occur to you for a moment that those records would not be broken again for almost a0 years?