“It’s not that she slipped through the cracks,” her one-time coach, Al Joyner, told The Associated Press last month. “I think people didn’t take it seriously enough.”
The news of her death hit hard around track-and-field circles.
“It seemed like she was always out to prove something,” Joyner said. “And then when she did prove something, it was never good enough. ... That’s a dangerous thing. Everybody’s been taught the same way: ‘If I do this, it’s going to be easy street.’ But then when you do all those things and it’s not happening, it makes you stop believing in fairy tales.”Fast on her feet and able to jump high, Bowie gravitated to basketball as a kid growing up in Sand Hill, Mississippi.
“I didn’t want to come back saying, ‘Oh, I should’ve done this. I should’ve done that,’” Bowie said, beaming as she discussed her victory, the scrapes from the fall still fresh on her legs. Bowie left Florida for the U.S. Olympic committee-run Elite Athlete Training Center in Chula Vista, California. But when she showed up to start the 2019 season, she was told she owed $6,000 to the facility — a bill she said she did not expect and led to her leaving the center.
After finishing fourth in the long jump at world championships in 2019, Bowie posted on social media that she was looking forward to the Tokyo Olympics. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed the games by a year and Bowie did not try to qualify for the U.S. team in 2021. World Athletics lists her as having run only one race in 2022 — on June 4 in Florida where she clocked a 23.60 in the 200 meters, nearly 2 seconds off her personal best.
Gymnast Simone Biles and sprinter Noah Lyles were among those in the Olympic space who helped change that dynamicDespite the occasional post on social media discussing the sacrifices pro athletes have to make, Bowie was never much part of that conversation.wake of sex-abuse scandals that rocked the Olympic world
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