Michael Johnson celebrates 200 meters winning for men in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
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LONDON – Olympic runner Michael Johnson did not run out of the auspicious.
“I hated group sport,” said an audience at CNBC. Converge directly In Singapore on Thursday, in reference to the period of playing football.
Johnson said: “I had a great game once when I was playing football and lost us, and we were on the bus on its way home and they are all sad, and I was thinking: I had a good game. I had to be happy,” Johnson said.
“This told me that I need to be in an individual sport, right?” He added.
In 1987, when Johnson was nineteen years old, his future coach, Claide Hart, noticed his sport while Johnson was studying at the University of Bilor, in Waku, Texas. he He won his first world title In the 1991 World Athletics Championship in Tokyo, he finished first in the 200 meter race.
Johnson said that the first half of his career in the path was about winning. “This will seem somewhat from the demon, but it was really related to hitting people as much as possible,” he said at the Sunglge Live.
Later, I realize that if he was sufficiently ready, “maybe I would win races.” Thus, it changed its strategy. “Then it became about chasing records, chasing history, and trying to do things in sport that has not been done before,” Johnson said.
He went to become the only male athlete to get Olympic gold in both of the event 200 meters and 400 meters, and he does this during the 1996 summer games in Atlanta, Georgia.
Michael Johnson comments on the BBC at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022.
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Johnson said that the competition involves an artistic approach and “implementing the race strategy”, and has developed with his coach. He said: “(When) I run the race, I constantly evaluate whether I am late or if I am on the place where I should be at certain points on the path and make decisions based on this evaluation about whether you need to make an amendment.” “If you make the wrong decision, it may be catastrophic.”
The athlete said that he learned about the leadership as the leader of the US deportation team 4 x 400 meters in the 1998 Goodwill Games. He said, “You have to gather people. Everyone must understand … What is the goal. You are trying to get their individual goals … to suit the goals of the broader team.”
Johnson was founded Grand Slam Track, a sports league that will hold her first event in Kingston, Jamaica, next month, and described himself as a “businessman” since he retired from competitive sport in 2001.
“I managed to apply a lot of those things that I learned as athlete … Preparing is everything. You trust the process, but I have a good process, right?” He said.
