Michael Johnson celebrates its victory in 2006 at the Summer Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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London – the sports career of Olympic Sprinter Michael Johnson failed to start the most successful start.
“I hated team sports,” he told the audience in CNBC Will coincide live In Singapore on Thursday, referring to the period when he played football.
“I had a great game when I played football and we lost, and we are on the bus on the way home and everyone is sad, and I think: I had a good game. I should be happy, “said Johnson.
“It told me that I had to work individual sport, right?” He added.
In 1987, when Johnson was 19 years old, his future coach Clyde Hart noticed his athleticism, while Johnson studied at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He He won his first world championship title At the Athletics World Championships in 1991 in Tokyo they occupy the first place in the 200 m race.
Johnson said that the first half of his track career was about winning. “It will sound a bit devilish, but it was really about beating people as bad as I could,” he said in Converge Live.
Later he realized that if he was prepared enough: “I was probably going to win races.” He changed his strategy anyway. “Then it happened about the prosecution of records, prosecution of history and trying to do things in sport that have never been done before,” said Johnson.
He became the only male athlete who took Olympic gold at both sprint events with an area of 200 meters and 400m, doing so during summer matches in 1996 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 includes a technical approach and “realizing the racing strategy”, developed with his coach. “(When) I run a race, I constantly assess whether I am delayed or overtake where I have to be on the track at some points and make decisions based on the assessment whether I have to make a correction,” he said. “If you make the wrong decision, it can be catastrophic.”
The athlete said that he learned about leadership as the captain of the American Men's relay team at 4 x 400m at Goodwill matches in 1998. “You must connect people. Everyone must understand … what is the goal. And you are trying to get their individual goals … to fit for wider team purposes, “he said.
Johnson founded the Grand Slam Track, a sports league that will take place in Kingston in Jamaica, next month and described himself as an “entrepreneur” because he retired in sports sport in 2001.
“I managed to apply many things that I learned as an athlete … Preparation is everything. Trust the process, but I have a good trial, right? ” He said.