Many great candidates emerged, but Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s late entrant as Florence Griffith-Joyner and Tommie Smith was the Olympic costume highlight of Halloween.
The detail is extraordinary.
Beyoncé chose Flo-Jo’s self-designed, one-legged purple running suit from the 1988 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. It’s true to form, right down to the details on the bib, including the No. 371.
In that suit, Flo-Jo shattered the 100m world record, lowering it from 10.76 to 10.49, though there is debate whether the wind reading of 0.0 was correct given the nearby triple jump anemometer read 4.