I don't know, why do you ask? FloJo's time wasn't wind aided (outside of the allowed wind speed).
Pretty sure it is strongly suspected/known that her WR was wind assisted, but was allowed to stand due to a faulty reader (which recorded +0.0 on a windy day). Granted she also ran 3-4 other unbelievable (
) times around that time, too.
Edit:
-In the first race of the quarterfinals of the
U.S. Olympic Trials, she stunned her colleagues when she sprinted 100 meters in 10.49 seconds, a new world record. Since 1997 the International Athletics Annual of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians has listed this performance as "probably strongly wind assisted, but recognized as a world record".
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Flojo's 100m World Record (10.49 sec)
An unexpected outcome of the work on wind assistance was the discovery that Florence Griffith-Joyners' 100m world record was an illegal (wind-assisted) performance. Flojo recorded 10.49 seconds in the quarterfinals at the 1988 US Olympic Trials. This performance broke the existing world record by a whopping 0.27 seconds, and no other sprinter has come anywhere near the mark since. However, the official wind reading was considered 'highly suspect' by those who witnessed the race. The September 1988 issue of
Track & Field News had a column titled "Everyone Knows it's Windy", which included the comment: "It's hard to say which number caused the bigger gasp at the Trials, Florence Griffith Joyners' 10.49 at the finish-line time indicator, or the 0.0 which popped up on the mid-straight wind board".
The doubts about the official wind reading (0.0) were confirmed by a study of the 100m races at the Trials. Plots of race time versus wind reading were examined for deviations from the expected relation. The wind reading for Flojo's 10.49 race was clearly anomalous. For all competitors in this race (not just Flojo), the race time indicated that the wind reading should have been between +5.0 and +7.0 m/s. The 10.49 performance was definitely wind-assisted. The real world record should be the 10.61 performance that Flojo set in the final at the 1988 US Olympic Trials.
Unfortunately, the IAAF has not yet corrected the world record list. The April 1994 issue of
Track & Field News had a column in support of the findings, and since 1997 the
International Athletics Annual of the
Association of Track and Field Statisticians has listed Florence Griffith-Joyner's 10.49 performance as "probably strongly wind assisted, but recognised as a world record". In the 2003 edition of
IAAF World Records, Richard Hymans concludes "this is a world record which should not have been ratified".
Note: Many of those involved in running the 1988 US Olympic Trials were opposed to the 10.49 performance being submitted to the IAAF. However, the relevant paperwork was signed and the performance was ratified as a world record. It seems that common sense 'took a holiday' at this track meet.