Daughter to sing as Pacers pay tribute to Flo-Jo

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Florence Griffith-Joyner, the late US athletics star who won 1988 Olympic gold and set world records at 100 and 200 meters, will be honored Sunday by the NBA's Indiana Pacers. Mary Joyner, the daughter of "Flo-Jo", will sing the US anthem before the Pacers play host to the Dallas Mavericks. Joyner was only seven years old when Griffith-Joyner died in 1998 in her sleep at age 38 in what was ruled suffocation during an epileptic seizure. "And, not only are the Pacers honoring her, but they are honoring her work outside the track world.

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