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Michael Johnson notes the 200m men at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
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London – Olympic sprint career Michael Johnson did not go to the most favorable start.
“I hated team sports,” he said to the CNBC’s audience Get off live In Singapore on Thursday, referring to the period he played football.
“I had a great game once I played football and we lost and we’re on the bus on the way home and all the sad and I think: I had a good game. I should be happy,” Johnson said.
“So what I told me I needed to do individual sports, huh?” He added.
In 1987, when Johnson was 19, his future coach Claid Hart noticed his athleticism when Johnson studied at Baylor University in Vaka, Texas. He won your first world title At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo 1991, having won the first place in the 200m race.
Johnson said the first half of his track career is a victory. “It will sound like a devilish, but it was about beating people as bad as I could,” he said in Converge Live.
He later realized that when he was ready, “I probably win the race.” And so he changed his strategy. “Then the speech began to pursue records and pursue history and try to play a sport that has never done before,” Johnson said.
He became the only athlete -a man who accepted Olympic gold both 200 m and 400 m of sprint events, doing so during the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
Michael Johnson commented for the BBC at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022.
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Johnson said competition includes a technical approach and “implementing a race strategy”, he developed with his coach. “(When) I am running the race, I always evaluate when I am behind, or when I outpace where I need to be at certain moments on the track and make decisions based on whether I need to adjust,” he said. “If you make the wrong decision, it can be catastrophic.”
The athlete said he learned about the leadership as captain of the male relay 4 x 400 m at the Goodwill Games in 1998. “You have to combine people. Everyone needs to understand … what a goal. And you are trying to get your individual goals … To fit the team for broad purposes,” he said.
The following month, Johnson founded Grand Slam Track, a sports league that will hold his first event in Kingston, Jamaica, and called himself a “entrepreneur” because he came out of competitive sports in 2001.
“I managed to apply a lot of the things I learned as an athlete … Preparation is all. You trust the process, but I have a good process, right?” he said.
