No one had got near Michael Johnson's 1996 world record until the Jamaican giant scorched the Bird's Nest and seared history No one was ever going to beat Michael Johnson's record. Not in my young lifetime anyway, maybe some distant day when I was old and grey, and the game had changed out of all recognition. Remember watching him set it at the Atlanta Olympics in '96? That idiosyncratic style of his, back straight, carriage low, arms tucked, legs spinning so quick his gold spikes were like spar...
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The Guardian - 23 Mar 2020 14:00
No one had got near Michael Johnson's 1996 world record until the Jamaican giant scorched the Bird's Nest and seared history No one was ever going to beat Michael Johnson's record. Not in my young lifetime anyway, maybe some distant day when I was old and grey, and the game had changed out of all recognition. Remember watching him set it at the Atlanta Olympics in '96? That idiosyncratic style of his, back straight, carriage low, arms tucked, legs spinning so quick his gold spikes were like spar...
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