Let's Have Some Respect Eh?
















For Marlon Devonish, Dwayne and any other X-Box athletes, this is the record of Michael Johnson at major athletics events.

Year Tournament Venue Result Event

1990 Goodwill Games Seattle 1st 200 m (Age 23)
1991 IAAF Grand Prix Final Barcelona 1st 200 m
1991 IAAF World Championships Tokyo, 1st 200 m
1992 Summer Olympics Barcelona 1st 4x400 m Relay

Johnson suffered food poisoning in Spain and was to ill to make the 200 m Final, he was part of the 4x400 team that set a new World Record.

1993 IAAF Grand Prix Final London, 3rd 200 m
1993 IAAF World Championships Stuttgart 1st 4x400 m Relay
1993 IAAF World Championships Stuttgart 1st 400 m
1994 Goodwill Games St. Petersburg 1st 200 m
1995 IAAF / Mobil Grand Prix Final 1st 200 m
1995 IAAF World Championships Göteburg 1st 4x400 m Relay
1995 IAAF World Championships Göteburg 1st 200 m
1995 IAAF World Championships Göteburg 1st 400 m

In 1996 in the U.S.A Olympic Trials Johnson beat the 200m World Record that had stood for 17 years.

1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta 1st 200 m

In the 200 m final Johnson achieved the following:opening 100m in 10.12s, averaged 25 m.p.h over the length of the race and set a new World Record of 19.32 secs, the biggest ever improvement on an existing record. The 19.32 still stands, in fact the nearest anybody has ever got to the 19.66 he set in the trial two months before the final was on 11 July 2006 this year.

1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta 1st 400 m

MJ finished a second ahead of our own Roger Black who ran the race of his life for silver.

Michael Johnson is 30 at this point, the same age as Marlon Devonish is at the time of the 2006 European Championships, worth comparing records eh Marlon?

1997 IAAF World Championships Athens 1st 400 m
1998 Goodwill Games New York City 1st 400 m
1999 IAAF World Championships Sevilla 1st 4x400 m Relay
1999 IAAF World Championships Sevilla 1st 400 m
2000 U.S. Olympic Trials Sacramento 1st 400 m

2000 Summer Olympics Sydney 1st 4x400 m Relay
2000 Summer Olympics Sydney 1st 400 m

Johnson has run 22 400-meter races under 44 seconds. In the 200 m, he has six times under 19.80 s and 17 sub-20 second performances. He also holds the world record at 300 m — 30.85 s. The former record was 31.48 s.

The point of this is that once again British athletes, so pleased at winning the minor medals, have been reacting badly to comments made by Michael Johnson in the BBC coverage of the EAA Championships. The London Olympics are just six years away, so work backwards from Atlanta in 1996 to 1990 and you have to see exactly what our dim witted, lottery funded, pathetic excuses for men have to do before they can justifiably criticise one of the Greatest Athletes ever.
Oh yes Marlon, big up the bronze. Some people can talk the talk and then there are sporting legends.