 The extraordinary result raised the possibility of a technical malfunction with the wind gauge which read at 0.0 m/s - a reading which was at complete odds to the windy conditions on the day with high wind speeds being recorded in all other sprints before and after this race as well as the parallel long jump runway at the time of the Griffith-Joyner performance.All scientific studies commissioned by the IAAF and independent organisations have since confirmed there was an illegal tailwind of between 5 m/s – 7 m/s at the time.This should have annulled the legality of this result, although the IAAF has chosen not to take this course of action.