I will NEVER forget that summer of 1996 in Atlanta... I could not believe what my eyes had just witnessed. This performance was LEGENDARY & what Michael did that day will forever go down as one of the Greatest of his career. It was a beautiful moment to watch it all unfold the way it did.
Indeed. I'm not a huge fan of track and field but I recall watching this race on live tv. The buzz and electricity was incredible! One of the greatest moments in sports!
As a Canadian I will never forget Donovan Bailey winning gold in the 100m sprint and Canada winning gold in the 4x100m men’s relay. Sorry but it was satisfying to beat the Americans for a change 😂❤😅
Why Bruce keeps being hired for athletics commenting each Olympics, it's a question that has been asked for decades now. But, he just keeps on being hired - to be fair, he's not horrible, just doesn't always have the best takes, make you wonder just how horrible and inauthentic his competition often sounds that he gets the top job all the time.
In 1996, I was a very good 200m runner at secondary school. I can't begin to tell you how much this man used to inspire me. He was just incredible to watch - never used to miss any of his races!
The commentators were well suited for this amazing performance. "He's home Margo. Look at this. He is streaking way. Magnificent running. Look at the time. Unbelievable! The best I've ever seen."
@@footballvidshd5421 Disagree everyone uses something. There's a difference between something legal and illegal as well as accepted in professional sport and not accepted. My point is the athletes (especially back then but also now) were pin cushions and test dummies. Everything they "achieved" should be tainted and have an asterisk in the record books. Just like all those Eastern European and Chinese swimmers, Tour de France cyclists etc. Their achievements aren't real. Don't compete in what is supposed to be a "clean" competition and be juiced to the tits.
Interestingly he doesn't actually accelerate especially towards the end of the last 100m. He just decelerates slower than everyone else. Very interesting pattern in all sprint races
Yes we will never forget his wonderful rolling bowling action, and then in terms of pure power we think of the great Carl Lewis, because he reminds us of the and the mighty JESSE OWENS, who was so badly needed at that time by the whole world and the free world, HITLER must've been chewing on his tashe, his Moustache, ah he was great, pity little more was made of him after that, but Avery Brundidge was a strange man
This is still one of the best performances of all times. I can't get enough of watching it- Micheal coming out of the curve and just running away from a world class field! Still and always will be amazing! xxx
@@amjan I don't even began to think how u came out with that conclusion?..bolt destroyedjohnson time..destroyed it...crushed it...johnson best was not even near bolts best....he was good...but NOT BOLT GOOD.
He was larger than life back in '96. His name, face, accomplishments, records, and those golden shoes were known by nearly every American. Certainly, hosting the Olympics helped broadcast his image across the nation. Not sure another American Olympian will reach his popularity again, with the way the world has changed so much. Young people have so many influences today.
You sound like you want to lick the ground he walks on. Listen to yourself "the word legend doesn't come close". How about you start a religion and worship his statue when you get out of bed. "Legend" is a superlative term and to say that it doesn't come close is idiotic and ridiculous.
P.G. Yes, M.Johnson was one of the best. It took decades before his records were broken, and he's still involved in the track World. Just ignore the other comment on this thread. It's mean and almost vulgar.
@@Polysthenes Such a mean and practically vulgar comment. The man was merely commenting on what Michael Johnson meant to so many of us during the Atlanta Olympics. Please don't confuse that word "legend" with blindly adoring masses. Johnson meant more to so many of us because of who he was... not just his track prowess.
One of the best races ever and M. Johnson is one of the greatest ever! Just Amazing!! ⚡ Much respect also for the great F. Fredericks. Greetings from Italy 🙂
Yup, you're absolutely right. Remarkable also that in those days the sprint athletes looked way more muscular than nowadays. They had the power and the speed,nowadays only the speed, pity indeed....
GREAT COMMENTS. Big respects to Frank Fredericks!! He beat a 17 year old world record in that race and lost by 36 hundredths. Michael Johnson was just in a zone. 👏
@@litonyayo1666 Bailey was great at his specialty … the 100 meters. Johnson was a two distance racers. The 150 race was not close for sure but it is not a official race .
I would like it noted for the record that Frankie Fredericks ran just above what the world record had been at the start of this race: 19.68. Boldon ran 19.8. These are insanely fast times. I just don’t want us to lose sight of that. And yet MJ made them look almost pedestrian. Just inhuman speed we wouldn’t see again for another 20 years when Bolt came along. Unbelievable.
I've watched this race at least a hundred times over the years, and still marvel the turn that Michael Johnson could run. Nobody has ever done it better! Truly still fun to watch.
I remember the 96 Olympics like it was yesterday. MJ was my guy and watching him race made me fall in love with track. He was built like he was from the future. Rewatching this gave me chills but it also gave me more of an appreciation for evolution
I got enchanted with MJ at the world champs in Goeteborg in 1995, so in 1996 he already was my idol and I understood how inhuman 19.32 was. I get goose bumps to this day!
@@stevehash158 you must mean the other way around? JADCO (the jamaican anti doping agency), has almost no funding and does not routinely test their athletes out of competition. This is a big problem and could potentially explain Bolts success, because purely from a technique perspective, he has very poor and inefficient technique according to many experts, unlike johnson, who despite his awkward upright and backward leaning technique is much more efficient and stable that Bolt
Lately i have been finding more and more races of these two. My idol on the track and still my favorite moment and race ever! Usain is a legend but still no moment quite like this has surpassed. This was truly legendary. I hope to god that one day i will be the second man to do this.
Ish Robbins hey dude he is also my big idol n I have tatoo of his face on my hand I pray him as a godn I wish to b next USAIN BOL I had find his whole history on net I can leave my home my parents for USAIN BOLT He is a WINNER he got defects but he continue. running became LEGEND my idol UASIN BOLT
DUDE YOU ROCK!!!!!! this was my era of track n field....I made the 92 Barcelona team in the mens open 400m then I tore my posterior cruciate ligament and was unable to attend...I was devastated!!! But I trained with MIchael with 5 others from Nike Texas. Watching him HERE on TV or a video playback is fun.....when you're down on the field watching him with the naked eye, it's like someone put rockets on his feet and he was skating on ice!!! LOL But thanks for what you said...Usain is def insane...but Michael Johnson is still that legendary god
Lived in Hotlanta from 1995-1998.... Was lucky to have had the opportunity to attend most of the premier event finals at the 96 Atlanta Olympic.... as the guest of a premier USOC corporate sponsor, was fortunate to be given lodging at the downtown Atlanta Ritz Carlton hotel, in addition to given club level suite access for the men’s and women’s T&F finals, as well as the men’s dream team basketball finals, the softball and baseball finals, women’s gymnastics individual and team championships.... it was super friggen hot that summer, but nonetheless had a blast.... even had a few instance of bumping in to celebrities, as Elton John, who at the time had an apartment in the buck-head neighborhood, was at a private engagement for the guests of corporate sponsors, also ran into Eric Clapton, smack dab in the newly developed and opened Nike Town, located at the chichi Phipps Plaza Mall..... he had Grace Jones with him, this I knew as she and I and my host were all alumni of Syracuse University... it’s good to have friends in high places, especially when they originated from low places lol...(btw....I got a huge attitude from my then newlyweded wife, as I was the last minute replacement guest of my recent wedding’s best man (he was newly divorced at that time), having taken the tickets that originally his now-exwife would have otherwise used)
Didn't his last 15 meters or so look sloppy? He looked like he didn't drive through the finish hard. I swear I think he could have squeezed out an even faster time in this race.
Bolt's current record is 19.19, I think Johnson could have bridged toward that with a hard driving last 15 meters. Not saying he'd have matched or beat it, but would have been closer than the 19.32.
@Moneyxl00 I don't think he was. I think he's just amazing. Even Roger Black in his book said he thought it was basically impossible that MJ was doping
I dont want say that you are wrong or fellow commentators are but I recall seeing some science type programme and profile on Johnson. They likened him as to how an Ostrich or Emu would run against say another animal....................As unorthodox as it looks and goodness knows I hated his style is what was behind his amazing turn of speed.
I was 17 the night he broke that record, first time I had goosebumps like that, 25yrs later still Have yet to feel those kind of goosebumps like I did that night! People can say what they want but put Bolt against Johnson in their primes I think Johnson takes it. I honestly think if he had someone side by side stride for stride he would edge anybody…. PERIOD!!!! I’d give anything to go back to that night in Atlanta….
I remember watching this on holiday and as soon as the time flashed up on screen the commentator shouted ‘someone get down there and measure that track!’. It’s easy to forget with all the exploits of Bolt how amazing this was, I never thought I’d see this record beaten in my lifetime. Combine Bolt’s bend and Johnson’s second 100m and that’s the human limit for 200m in my opinion.
Johnson's 1996 magnificent running reduced the 200 meters WR by a total of 0.42 - almost half a second! By comparison, Bolt reduced Johnson's record by 0.13. Johnson's times were the Fosbury flop of 200 meter running. Bolt's performance is much closer to the natural progression of speed over time - though, ironically and amazingly, he always felt like he could have run faster.
Johnson broke the record by 0.42 seconds, which is amazing. Everyone thought it could not be broken. For someone to go and break it by that much, is a far greater achievement. If Bolt had broken the first record, how many seconds would he have broken it by. Think about that.
@@immy00 No he didn’t! Are you high? Blake is a 100M specialist and not 200M at all ever no way no how. The two fastest times belong to Bolt…then Johnson the third and fourth fastest…then Pietro Mennea…then Mike Marsh, then a tie between Carl Lewis and Joe Deloach…then the great, Tommy Smith. I can go on and on and on and Johan Blake’s name is nowhere to he seen in the Track and Field Almanac of the fastest 200M times in history.
@@adambassuni6084 Well, that’s in no track history sites I’ve ever seen. However, I just looked up a video of Blake from 2011 running that 19.26 and you are right and I’m wrong. I feel a little ridiculous now. Not sure why this wasn’t in the recorded sites. Damn, his last 100 looked faster than Bolt and Johnson’s last 100M when they broke the world record. Again, I was wrong and never hear people talk about that time during meets. Inanely fast and not sure why he stopped running the 200. He’s now carrying so much muscle I do think that’s a hinderance.
The 200 is easily a candidate for one of the top track races ever run. I had to watch back to grasp how this man came out of the turn like shot out of a cannon. A record that lasted 12 years - a virtual eternity in track races.
It's unbelievable how much distance he put between himself in the rest of the field in the Olympic 200M final! To blow away the best in the world. That is the ultimate statement in T&F. I think it came down to unbreakable mental focus and sheer willpower.
Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Michael Jonhnson. 90’s were magical
Daniel Thompson You're on to something but lol. Do Mike Tyson counts?🤔
Daniel Thompson 👍
Realist 100% I don’t see why not lol
Daniel Thompson I guess we can go on and add Michael Vick to the list too, huh? Lmao
Daniel Thompson You know what, We can pretty say that Michaels are the best athletes 😂😂😂
Michael Johnson with the Golden shoes was quite extraordinary, one of the very top Olympians of the modern era
Agreed!
Icon and legend
WTF are you talking about. He was a cheater.
@@DonTrump-sv1sibro was eating trenbalone sandwiches 😅
I will NEVER forget that summer of 1996 in Atlanta... I could not believe what my eyes had just witnessed. This performance was LEGENDARY & what Michael did that day will forever go down as one of the Greatest of his career. It was a beautiful moment to watch it all unfold the way it did.
Indeed. I'm not a huge fan of track and field but I recall watching this race on live tv. The buzz and electricity was incredible! One of the greatest moments in sports!
Of any career. Maybe the greatest of any career
No doubt. I guess we're showing how much older we all are now. Anyway happy days and great comment.
As a Canadian I will never forget Donovan Bailey winning gold in the 100m sprint and Canada winning gold in the 4x100m men’s relay. Sorry but it was satisfying to beat the Americans for a change 😂❤😅
who would have thought that Johnson was a cheating prick.
This guy is my absolute favourite sprinter. I love Usain but this man defines the athletics of my youth. Wow!!!
1:27 “he came out running...”
Yep strong strategy for a race..
Pissed Bob Ross There is always one perv.
Lol
Why Bruce keeps being hired for athletics commenting each Olympics, it's a question that has been asked for decades now. But, he just keeps on being hired - to be fair, he's not horrible, just doesn't always have the best takes, make you wonder just how horrible and inauthentic his competition often sounds that he gets the top job all the time.
who's still watching in 2020? my favourite sprinter of all times
What an amazing athlete. Incredible style and power.
So delighted to watch ,MJ
June 28 2020.
Here I am
mine too. just amazing
In 1996, I was a very good 200m runner at secondary school. I can't begin to tell you how much this man used to inspire me.
He was just incredible to watch - never used to miss any of his races!
My favourite athlete of all time. Damn, he hits that last bend with such power. Truly an absolute freak of nature.
For me to 👍
25 years and still gives me chills!
Yep, one of the finest athletes those days. Loved him perform ❤
To be so many years ago, and get this time STILL gives me chills.
Right
You can see the juice coming out their ears. Amazing.
@@ontherunjgI noticed
I still remember watching these races. His 200m was the most impressive race I had ever seen at that point.
Men that 90's fade was straight fire with the earring and his gold chain, straight classic
These are facts bro!
Fax what a legend, the spikes too🔥
Yep, the high and tight!
Word
What an AMAZING Character Michael Johnson is, I love that he's always around for the commentary in UK for major sporting events too.😃❤
Indeed. Unbelievable athlete, informed commentator and nice guy. Kudos. brilliant Aussie commentary on this too. Passionate.
Yeh hes great.
Great Runner him on commentary nope give the man a banana such a loser of a guy
His upright running style was amazing.
He definitely had a rocket up his arse. Awesome
His upper body just couldn't keep up...
They call that the TRex
Yes, it is an unusual running style.
Unussual stlye of running totaly!oposit of all teching rules of sprint but works for him
The commentators were well suited for this amazing performance. "He's home Margo. Look at this. He is streaking way. Magnificent running. Look at the time. Unbelievable! The best I've ever seen."
2 runners have since been lower than 19.32 but this race was the most impressive. It totally changed what we thought was possible in a 200m.
Yep, the amount of drugs in the veins of the athletes is yet to be surpassed.
@Anfa18 everyone uses something, so what's your point
@@footballvidshd5421 Disagree everyone uses something. There's a difference between something legal and illegal as well as accepted in professional sport and not accepted. My point is the athletes (especially back then but also now) were pin cushions and test dummies. Everything they "achieved" should be tainted and have an asterisk in the record books. Just like all those Eastern European and Chinese swimmers, Tour de France cyclists etc. Their achievements aren't real. Don't compete in what is supposed to be a "clean" competition and be juiced to the tits.
@@Anfa18 Yeah nowadays that use drugs that can't even be traced
Now just imagine if those athletes from the past had today's technology and training of today's era
What an amazing athlete Johnson was, poetry in motion.
Not only a great sprinter but also a genuinely nice human being.
Johnson will always be my favourite
Watching his races even in 2020, it's like on the last 100m everybody slows down, except Johnson. He still accelerates. Amazing, still today.
Interestingly he doesn't actually accelerate especially towards the end of the last 100m. He just decelerates slower than everyone else. Very interesting pattern in all sprint races
Yes we will never forget his wonderful rolling bowling action, and then in terms of pure power we think of the great Carl Lewis, because he reminds us of the and the mighty JESSE OWENS, who was so badly needed at that time by the whole world and the free world, HITLER must've been chewing on his tashe, his Moustache, ah he was great, pity little more was made of him after that, but Avery Brundidge was a strange man
that 400m endurance
This is still one of the best performances of all times.
I can't get enough of watching it- Micheal coming out of the curve and just running away from a world class field!
Still and always will be amazing! xxx
And today a true embassador to athletics and a true gentleman! What a class act this man is!
I have never seen a 200 meter race ran as smooth as this ever! The way he came of that curve like he shoot out of a cannon.
Cannons don't do curves. Did you mean Tomahawk in Iraq?
It seems like he even increases his speed in the final 100 meters!, Impressive!
@@enriquecolin28 His second 100m from that race is the fastest ever, even fastest than Bolt's in his best. He ran it in 9.2 seconds.
@@amjan I don't even began to think how u came out with that conclusion?..bolt destroyedjohnson time..destroyed it...crushed it...johnson best was not even near bolts best....he was good...but NOT BOLT GOOD.
@@amjan yohan blake ran 9.12 sec during his 19.26 run
who still watching in 2019?
Me!!!
Me Indonesia
Tonight
🙋♂️ Malaysia 🇲🇾
I was there in Florida met Johnson on a elevator
Frankie is one of my favourite athlete's of all time. So nice and a humble guy, love him.
He basically equalled the WR in this race .... And he got whipped by 5m+
Frankie Fredricks was the Yohan Blake to Usian Bolt during Micheal Johnson’s reign. Awesome times back then. You
Fredericks is my all time favorite sprinter. You could see him shifting gears when he runs
MJ's form when he ran was something beautiful to behold!!
MJ was phenomenal one of the greatest much respect from Kenya.
Yes I'm still watching MJ 's WINS!!! I Love Track
the beauty of watching Johnson run... just amazing.
The emotion in the commentary for the 200m gets me every time 4:08. What an Olympian and what a human being.
Who’s the commentator?
@@topgun6981 Bruce McAvaney
He was larger than life back in '96. His name, face, accomplishments, records, and those golden shoes were known by nearly every American. Certainly, hosting the Olympics helped broadcast his image across the nation. Not sure another American Olympian will reach his popularity again, with the way the world has changed so much. Young people have so many influences today.
i love how he made it look so effortless
This is THE greatest track commentary of all time. Brilliant.
Michael Johnson_ one of THE greatest athletes of all time. The word legend doesn't come close.
We loved his class and confidence.
You sound like you want to lick the ground he walks on. Listen to yourself "the word legend doesn't come close". How about you start a religion and worship his statue when you get out of bed. "Legend" is a superlative term and to say that it doesn't come close is idiotic and ridiculous.
P.G. Yes, M.Johnson was one of the best. It took decades before his records were broken, and he's still involved in the track World. Just ignore the other comment on this thread. It's mean and almost vulgar.
I've reconsidered. I should be nicer to those suffering from what can only be called celebrity worship syndrome.
@@Polysthenes Such a mean and practically vulgar comment. The man was merely commenting on what Michael Johnson meant to so many of us during the Atlanta Olympics. Please don't confuse that word "legend" with blindly adoring masses. Johnson meant more to so many of us because of who he was... not just his track prowess.
Brings me back to my childhood. I’m from Atlanta and the summer of 96 is the best summer of my life. A magical time to be in Atlanta.
I watched him live and he was amazing.....
Great era of track & field. Johnson is a legend both on and off the track. An absolute class act.
The best looking 200m and 400m races all the time!
One of the best races ever and M. Johnson is one of the greatest ever! Just Amazing!! ⚡ Much respect also for the great F. Fredericks. Greetings from Italy 🙂
Well said about Frederick's too.
Yup, you're absolutely right. Remarkable also that in those days the sprint athletes looked way more muscular than nowadays. They had the power and the speed,nowadays only the speed, pity indeed....
GREAT COMMENTS. Big respects to Frank Fredericks!! He beat a 17 year old world record in that race and lost by 36 hundredths. Michael Johnson was just in a zone. 👏
@@mongoslade277 yeah 🙂👍 and that 1979 record belonged to another great sprinter one of the greatest..."our" Pietro Mennea! 😉✨
The 200m for me my best olympic moment ever . Poetry in motion
I still get the chills watching this memorable 2 races.
i still get chills watching Donovan Baily beating his ass...
@@litonyayo1666 Bailey was great at his specialty … the 100 meters. Johnson was a two distance racers.
The 150 race was not close for sure but it is not a official race .
Absolute legend.
Man, I remember watching this live my sophomore year of High school. Such an exciting moment in time!
Black and white Tv ? Lol
I would like it noted for the record that Frankie Fredericks ran just above what the world record had been at the start of this race: 19.68. Boldon ran 19.8. These are insanely fast times. I just don’t want us to lose sight of that. And yet MJ made them look almost pedestrian. Just inhuman speed we wouldn’t see again for another 20 years when Bolt came along. Unbelievable.
Yohan Blake too.
Thanks for the reminder, makes it even more spectacular and tough, tough luck on Fredericks and Boldon, but they can sure be proud.
Lol what? Donovan Bailey was faster.
@@thetruth1024 Donovan Bailey didn't run at 200m
"He came out running as he said he would" Sounds like he had the perfect game plan.
Lol
4:05: his speed coming out of the bend is just insane. He was running so fast that I think the cameraman almost missed him at one point.
Love to see this MAN run...so graceful
Michael Johnson was from another planet. We never knew, did we? Legend! 🙌
Even to this day I am still in awe! Incredible! My favorite runner of all time.
Correction, one of the best. Don't forget for example, carl lewis or bolten, also 2 of the finest
@@erwinstada1811 favourite doesn't require objectivity
Still love watching this incredible athlete !!! favorite track athlete of all time !!! Poetry and power in motion !!!
It was Truly a Pleasure to Watch Michael run! That UP Right running style was So Cool!!
SOID! A! (REAL)!!! PLEASURE! TO! WATCH! MICHAEL!!! JOHNSONS!!! RUNNING! IS! (REAL)!!! COOL!!!
He ALWAYS kept his form in 200 and 400. The greatest.
his form is amazing to watch
Hey Tiger, your picture made me 😂😂
thats the best name/avatar ive seen in awhile, like 5 years lol. Props on using tiger.
His upright running style minimized form breaks during fatigue.
he has a cool duck billed form
I have the same form (but don't have the speed :). My friends always made fun of me until Johnson became a superstar in the mid-90s.
I've watched this race at least a hundred times over the years, and still marvel the turn that Michael Johnson could run. Nobody has ever done it better! Truly still fun to watch.
I remember the 96 Olympics like it was yesterday. MJ was my guy and watching him race made me fall in love with track. He was built like he was from the future. Rewatching this gave me chills but it also gave me more of an appreciation for evolution
I got enchanted with MJ at the world champs in Goeteborg in 1995, so in 1996 he already was my idol and I understood how inhuman 19.32 was. I get goose bumps to this day!
90's were magic I'll say it twice this fella was champion his build alone was awesome!.. fantastic viewing reminding us all of better day's!?
Well ..I wouldn't go all out to say the 90s was a golden era. Lots of serious issues with ped back then even at olympics
Nothing was better than the 1996 Olympics on live television👏👏👏
Remember it well. The 200m in particular is breathtaking to watch. MJ was absolutely flying.
All credits tot Usain Bolt and Carl Lewis but Michael Johnson will always be my favourite sprinter
Aight
SOID! CORRECT! MICHAEL!!! JOHNSON!!! (AL-WAYS)!!!
Yea no better form.. Imagine if Usian Bolt had MJ form he would run under 19sec!
Yes imagine if USAIN got illegal substances like johnson.
@@stevehash158 you must mean the other way around? JADCO (the jamaican anti doping agency), has almost no funding and does not routinely test their athletes out of competition. This is a big problem and could potentially explain Bolts success, because purely from a technique perspective, he has very poor and inefficient technique according to many experts, unlike johnson, who despite his awkward upright and backward leaning technique is much more efficient and stable that Bolt
Man if only Johnson and Bolt was in the same era!! That would have been crazy!!
Would've been phenomenal to watch
I think the world record would be even lower now as they would have pushed each other.
@@richardneville9872 100 percent!
@@richardneville9872 you right he didn't have anyone to push him
Bolt would have found a way to win.
Much Respect 👍 Old Is Gold
I loved watching Michael run he was like a man running against boys fantastic
For me Johnson looks always like Eddy Murphy😂😂champion
He looks
Like a angry turtle on the thumbnail...
MAC 75 hell yeah
Senator Johnson
Hahaha, Eddie Murphy, my first thought when I hit the Play button ;D. A great sprinter, though.
That's true
Lately i have been finding more and more races of these two. My idol on the track and still my favorite moment and race ever! Usain is a legend but still no moment quite like this has surpassed. This was truly legendary. I hope to god that one day i will be the second man to do this.
Ish Robbins hey dude he is also my big idol n I have tatoo of his face on my hand I pray him as a godn I wish to b next USAIN BOL I had find his whole history on net I can leave my home my parents for USAIN BOLT He is a WINNER he got defects but he continue. running became LEGEND my idol UASIN BOLT
Ish Robbins talks about the great Michael johnson. and he has right .
DUDE YOU ROCK!!!!!! this was my era of track n field....I made the 92 Barcelona team in the mens open 400m then I tore my posterior cruciate ligament and was unable to attend...I was devastated!!! But I trained with MIchael with 5 others from Nike Texas. Watching him HERE on TV or a video playback is fun.....when you're down on the field watching him with the naked eye, it's like someone put rockets on his feet and he was skating on ice!!! LOL But thanks for what you said...Usain is def insane...but Michael Johnson is still that legendary god
Good luck to you sir, wish one day you make the nation proud. God bless u
Brian G lovely story...and be proud you were that good.
Micheal Johnson was a machine, obliterated even the extreme top class of competition, brilliant athletics, great to relive these track moments
ok, boomer
He was doped, all his titles were taken away, so not a machine, just a scammer.
He was a cheater
You besides when Donavan Bailey kicked his ass?
After now watching his races i have gather so much respect for this man after all these years. GREAT
Lived in Hotlanta from 1995-1998.... Was lucky to have had the opportunity to attend most of the premier event finals at the 96 Atlanta Olympic.... as the guest of a premier USOC corporate sponsor, was fortunate to be given lodging at the downtown Atlanta Ritz Carlton hotel, in addition to given club level suite access for the men’s and women’s T&F finals, as well as the men’s dream team basketball finals, the softball and baseball finals, women’s gymnastics individual and team championships.... it was super friggen hot that summer, but nonetheless had a blast.... even had a few instance of bumping in to celebrities, as Elton John, who at the time had an apartment in the buck-head neighborhood, was at a private engagement for the guests of corporate sponsors, also ran into Eric Clapton, smack dab in the newly developed and opened Nike Town, located at the chichi Phipps Plaza Mall..... he had Grace Jones with him, this I knew as she and I and my host were all alumni of Syracuse University... it’s good to have friends in high places, especially when they originated from low places lol...(btw....I got a huge attitude from my then newlyweded wife, as I was the last minute replacement guest of my recent wedding’s best man (he was newly divorced at that time), having taken the tickets that originally his now-exwife would have otherwise used)
Remember watching this live..... he shattered expectations!
With the possible exception of Calvin Smith, this is the best turn leg I have ever seen. He EXPLODED from the turn in the 200M. Just incredible.
I watch this video at least 3 times a month. These are My all time favorite races . Johnson did his thing!!!! #TeamUSA
Wow! It even looked like he pulled up the last 10 meters in the 200! Michael Johnson was a BEAST!!!
i watch this vid about every month. absolutely LOVE watching him run ... LOVE IT!
Didn't his last 15 meters or so look sloppy? He looked like he didn't drive through the finish hard. I swear I think he could have squeezed out an even faster time in this race.
Bolt's current record is 19.19, I think Johnson could have bridged toward that with a hard driving last 15 meters. Not saying he'd have matched or beat it, but would have been closer than the 19.32.
I remember exactly where I was at that moment when I stopped to watch this amazing race.
Michael Johnson , we will missed such performance till eternity
Even tho bolt went on to break his WR in the 200m I still regard this as the greatest thing I've seen on the track...still gives me goosebumps.
As a fellow Jamaican, Bolt did good, but watching the way Johnson ran was just something else. Clean, clean running
He took .34 seconds off a WR, that’s LUDICROUS!
@Moneyxl00 it was a running mate for the mile relay or 4x400 who tested positive
i agree. this 19:32 is BAS ASS!!!!
@Moneyxl00 I don't think he was. I think he's just amazing. Even Roger Black in his book said he thought it was basically impossible that MJ was doping
Johnsons legs were so fast his upper body could never keep up.
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LOL you got it
I dont want say that you are wrong or fellow commentators are but I recall seeing some science type programme and profile on Johnson. They likened him as to how an Ostrich or Emu would run against say another animal....................As unorthodox as it looks and goodness knows I hated his style is what was behind his amazing turn of speed.
@Free Speech His form has been compared to Jesse Owens who also ran upright.
That is the mark of great technique.
OMG!!! you gotta love it! What a exhilarating feeling to see track and field stars do their thing...😁😁😁
watching in 2021. still exciting to watch.
smooth as silk, and even looked like he was proud of his Country. I miss watching him run.
Michael's time in the 200 was so fast that he initially thought the clock had malfunctioned.
We all thought that watching it live!
The era of the three MJs: Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, and Michael Johnson. I was a kid in 1996. Good times!
I was there for BOTH amazing nights, I still rank it up there as one of the greatest things I've ever seen in sports.
I was 17 the night he broke that record, first time I had goosebumps like that, 25yrs later still Have yet to feel those kind of goosebumps like I did that night! People can say what they want but put Bolt against Johnson in their primes I think Johnson takes it. I honestly think if he had someone side by side stride for stride he would edge anybody…. PERIOD!!!! I’d give anything to go back to that night in Atlanta….
I agree, Michael Johnson is my favorite up to now. Smooth running amazing.
I remember watching this on holiday and as soon as the time flashed up on screen the commentator shouted ‘someone get down there and measure that track!’. It’s easy to forget with all the exploits of Bolt how amazing this was, I never thought I’d see this record beaten in my lifetime. Combine Bolt’s bend and Johnson’s second 100m and that’s the human limit for 200m in my opinion.
The second 100m from the 13-17 second mark looked unreal.
His Head back running style is fabulous.
Amazing have always been a fan of Johnston.
Michael Johnson was a beautiful physical specimen back then. Handsome as anything, and a joy to watch him glide.
King Tutt he runs like a muppet
King Tutt you gay
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And he has 400m - 43.18 and 200m - 19.32
A lot of steroids
Handsome 😂
I remember when Johnson won one announcer said “the person who can beat him hasn’t been born yet”.
You're confused. Michael Johnson was asked who will beat Usain Bolts 100m and 200m world records. And he responded with he hasn't been born yet.
Julian Jalani bitch making shit up😂😂😂
@@julianjalani3198 and at the end two pepole were born to win and they won him.coleman
And gatlen.is that ok
Frank White pfft not even close to Bolts world records. Or olympic results. Those are the times that matter.
@@DeezNuts-ik6xl 400 meter?
IMPRESIONANTE MJ EL REY 👑
Thanks for the memories, Michael.
Commentator: You’ll never see anything better that.
Usain bolt: please pass me my spikes.
Johnson's 1996 magnificent running reduced the 200 meters WR by a total of 0.42 - almost half a second! By comparison, Bolt reduced Johnson's record by 0.13.
Johnson's times were the Fosbury flop of 200 meter running. Bolt's performance is much closer to the natural progression of speed over time - though, ironically and amazingly, he always felt like he could have run faster.
Johnson broke the record by 0.42 seconds, which is amazing. Everyone thought it could not be broken. For someone to go and break it by that much, is a far greater achievement. If Bolt had broken the first record, how many seconds would he have broken it by. Think about that.
Another great call by Bruce.
Still watching Michael Johnson still watching
Still watching these types Wow..Hope he doing well..I love to see him 🏃
I do appreciate the fact here that the video doesn't cut right after the race.
I never thought this record would be broken in my lifetime, yet 12 years later Bolt blew it away.
Yohan Blake also ran faster.
@@immy00 No he didn’t! Are you high? Blake is a 100M specialist and not 200M at all ever no way no how. The two fastest times belong to Bolt…then Johnson the third and fourth fastest…then Pietro Mennea…then Mike Marsh, then a tie between Carl Lewis and Joe Deloach…then the great, Tommy Smith.
I can go on and on and on and Johan Blake’s name is nowhere to he seen in the Track and Field Almanac of the fastest 200M times in history.
@@stevewise1656 all that shit talking just to be wrong. Yohan Blake ran a 19.26 in 2011 champ
@@adambassuni6084 Well, that’s in no track history sites I’ve ever seen. However, I just looked up a video of Blake from 2011 running that 19.26 and you are right and I’m wrong. I feel a little ridiculous now. Not sure why this wasn’t in the recorded sites. Damn, his last 100 looked faster than Bolt and Johnson’s last 100M when they broke the world record. Again, I was wrong and never hear people talk about that time during meets. Inanely fast and not sure why he stopped running the 200. He’s now carrying so much muscle I do think that’s a hinderance.
@@stevewise1656 he's right I watched that race yesterday on TH-cam. Blake did infact run 19.26 in Europe 2011
The 200 is easily a candidate for one of the top track races ever run. I had to watch back to grasp how this man came out of the turn like shot out of a cannon. A record that lasted 12 years - a virtual eternity in track races.
He was absolutely flying coming off the perfect bend he ran.
2021 and I'm still watching....
I remember this. What a great days
I use to love watching him run, his stride is great.
Yeah he is very smooth when he runs
Superb athlete.
Whose still watching in this wonderful year 2021
Always loved watching that dude run - amazing
It's unbelievable how much distance he put between himself in the rest of the field in the Olympic 200M final! To blow away the best in the world. That is the ultimate statement in T&F. I think it came down to unbreakable mental focus and sheer willpower.