"I think it is unrealistic to hope for some sports altogether free from the phenomenon of doping. "Lo said Michael Johnson (pictured Stock) in Qatar to compete in a golf tournament, the Gulf Times newspaper.
The former U.S. sprinter, Olympic and world champion in the 200 and 400 meter dash , also said: "In life there are people trying to take shortcuts and cheat - said Johnson - In a society there is good people and bad people, they always will. The sport is but a microcosm of society. "
According to former sprinter from Texas, despite the doping cases of U.S. athletes found Justin Gatlin and Marion Jones, the U.S. should still dominate in athletics during the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
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Michael Duane Johnson (Dallas, Texas, September 13, 1967) is a former American sprinter is considered by many the greatest all-time specialist in the sprints and long one of the greatest athletes of all time. He holds world records in the 200 (19:32), 400 (43.18 seconds) and 4x400 m relay (2'54 .20 ") has won four Olympic gold medals and was nine times world champion. He also held the world record in the indoor 400 (44.63).
It was the first man in history to win 200 to 400 meters in the same Olympic Games (Atlanta 1996); business success to two women, Valerie Brisco-Hooks in Los Angeles 1984 and Marie-Jose Perec in Atlanta 1996.
His first World Championship success came in 1991 when he won the title in the 200 meters at the World Championships in Tokyo. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, due to food poisoning failed to qualify for the final of the 200, but won the gold in the 4 x 400m relay team which set the world record (2'55 .74 ").
the World Championships in Stuttgart 1993 won the gold in the 400 and 4 x 400m relay, with a new world record (2'54 .29 ").
Over the next World Cup in Gothenburg, won his first "double" in a major event: gold in the 200 and 400, as well as one with the 4x400 relay.
The following year, the U.S. national championships improved to 19.66 "" the old world record of 200 Italian Pietro Mennea (19.72). The performance qualified him for the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, the center where the company "failed": The title of the 200 and 400 meters. On July 29, easily won the 400 (43.49 "), distance of almost a second and Britain's Roger Black 1.04 "the Ugandan Davis Kamoga. August 1, in the final of the 200, ran the first 100 meters in 10.12, closing at 19:32," the new world record in which it reached 37 km / h. It was the biggest improvement in the history of the record of 200, a landmark saloon comparable to that made long by countryman Bob Beamon Olympic City Messico1968.
In early 1997 he was injured during a race with Donovan Bailey on distance of 150 meter competition where the winner would go a million dollars in the same year, however, managed to win third world title on 400. In 1998 he suffered a new injury and the following season because of other physical problems, his preparation for the World Championships in Seville was just four races on the 400, had it not been for the IAAF's policy to admit that right holders title at the World Cup, would not go to Seville for the injured, had not participated in the U.S. Trials. Meanwhile healed, won his fourth world title in the 400 with the new world record (43.18 "). Finally in the 4 x 400m relay team, his ninth gold center.
Johnson ended his fabulous career at the Games Sydney 2000 Olympics by winning the 400 and 4 x 400m relay and bringing to five the total of his Olympic gold medals.
In 2003, however, it was revealed that Jerome Young was allowed to participate in the Olympics, where he had run in the qualifying rounds of the 4 × 400, although it was found positive for steroids in a doping test in 1999. An appeals court of the USA Track & Field had rejected the decision of the expert organization of doping, allowing Young, despite the positive aspects of participating.
The IAAF council also will deprive the U.S. relay team won the medal.
Johnson scored 22 times for a time under 44 "in the 400 races. In 200, fell to 17 times under 20 and under 19.80 for six. " He also holds the world record in the 300 (30.85 "The previous record was 31.48).
image of athletics in the 90's, today is the television columnist and the agent of the new rising star of the 400, white American Jeremy Wariner.
His unique style and unusual, with its upright, tall, short wheelbase and little movement of the arms (which earned him several nicknames including "tin soldier" and "Forrest Gump") has always been criticized by some experts would be counterproductive. (Ch.giord)
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