This World Record Is Unbeatable... 

Bro yessaa

Panashe, and one woman associate. Why?

Absolutely 💯

That would actually be cool to see. A women's 4x100m relay vs a 400m runner. Some meets should make that a thing.

@@jadel-houssami4994 400 meter female or male? I feel like this is a recipe to repeat that womans soccer champion team losing to the highschool varsity male soccer team, all over again.

His endurance was nothing special... It's his speed & speed reserve that gave him great 400m performances ... His 200m WR was a much better run than any of his 400s

@@nom6758 male 400m runner

@@shanelawson5072 okay so what you're saying is that his speed & speed reserve aided the endurance Johnson already had. Then along with that tough 400m training, Michael must have done a lot of short sprint workouts of 100m sprinters then. Cuz his personal best over that distance is 10.09 seconds, which is impressive for a quarter miler. His running style wasn't ideal for the 100m. It was suited for the longer sprints, aiding the endurance needed for them. What you said makes sense now.

Usain Bolt couldn't stand running the 400m as much as Johnson's running style wasn't ideal for the 100m. The two men have met and there's a lot of respect between the two legends. Bolt often sought advice from Johnson as what to do during his career. And Johnson praised Bolt as being the greatest sprinter of all time

Two phenomenal machines in their individual disciplines. Love them both!!!!!

Typical American.....Usain Bolt is Head and Shoulders above even Johnson knows it.......He probably sigh Bolt didn't choose the 400m also but then Wayde Van Niekerk came along.

@@alexreid2365 I'm not American.

No one is close to Bolt, he is light years ahead of any other sprinter since man began to time runs.

his form wasn't odd.... it was flawless

@@AK-gb9rp Yep, I saw a documentary where they measured certain aspects of his form against other runners. When you lean forward and drive, your feet are behind you. That is ok for gaining speed, but doesn't maintain well. Johnson was already to top speed well before most other athletes ended their drive phase. Feet out in front, pulling him down the track at top speed, floating basically. Even in the races where he had bad starts, it was all over as soon as he reached that up right stance.

😂

Probably not aerobic lung capacity. It's almost the opposite "system" in the body, the anaerobic, that kicks in when it comes to "speed endurance", His anaearobic capacity was probably off the chart. How his body handled lactate ("lactic acid"). How he could keep on running with lactate levels that would make normal person puke (or feel like his about to die) instantly and still keep the form despite how the body screams at all levels.. How he perfected his own running style which then delayed this lactate hell to happen later on in the races compared to other runners. How his setup of muscle fibers was unique with more of the "inbetweener muscle fibers". Fibres that shared a bit of both fast twitch (power) and slow twitch (endurance) muscle fiber properties. Yes compared to most (if not all) the 100 m runners he could have had better VO2-max (lung capacity). But not compared to the middle distance runners (and longer distances). If he would have had a VO2 max "off the chart" he wouldn't have been the 400 meter "sprinter type" in the first place! As a whole a fantastically fit athlete anyway. To me the greatest of all time with that 200/400 m "impossible" world record combo!

He's a sprinter, so his lung capacity isn't really a factor.

I gues you don't have to if you run "through" the finish line, it won't make you that much faster he ran with incredible upright posture and it worked for him🤷🏻‍♂️. Everyone does what works for them right?

What you mean by he run 43.03 because if he run 43.03 that mean he is the record holder then because the record is 43.18

@@mrintelligent3822 Yes, Wayde is the record holder.

@@mrintelligent3822 For someone called Mr Intelligent that wasn't a very intelligent comment.

@@mrintelligent3822 definitely don't know shit

@@pervyboy69 oh you think??

🥰😍🤩🥳

No he still has the 400m record

@@mrintelligent3822 Wayde Van Niekerk 43.03

@@nathankowcun4082 so what is the current record in the 400m now?

Oh shit...so when did this guy run that world record time which year?

@@mrintelligent3822 2016

Pushing each other? Johnson ran 19.32 only once his second best time is about 19.66 Bolt run those times while sleeping don't get it twisted.

Yes just imagine him with these new shoes and tracks most likely around 42.8

That's cause bolt never trained for anything over 200🤣 if he'd focused on 400 he would have hit around 43 flat.

@@abone2pick yeah bolt at the start of his career did 400m quite frequently but then shifted to 100m and 200m but he was quite fast, If I remember correctly, I think he got something like 44s flat when he was only 17 or something like that

Right by far the 🐐🐐🐐

But not the quickest

Wayde Van Niekerk: am I a joke to you?

@@pervyboy69 True

@@speedstreak914 😂 Wayde is the fastest, but in terms of success or medals won it's Michael

He’s not racing humans he’s racing himself it’s so weird to see

Agreed, super impressive, but his 400m PB is still the better performance.

Who else has ran a faster split in history?

@@stephenwilliams7200 As answered in the video, nobody. But 42.9 in a relay leg is objectively worse than his previous WR of 43.18. So to claim that it's his best performance doesn't make sense.

i am also curious

E.P.O. And roids. The 80's had something special... 😲

@@Robert_McGarry_Poems it's too bad they changed that. I much prefer the roided out look. It's like men's open bodybuilding from today.

Wtf have you even seen guys like Ronnie Baker or Fred Kerley?

but are you earlier than a mexican family to taco tuesday?

Honestly no one cares about you being first

I care 👏🏾

@@sir_sack alr its fine

jk, I was in a bad mood lol

Still the fastest a human has ever ran a 400 m

Michael Johnson is by far the goat? Goats have longevity.

No because we know everyone was on it. You could take twice the shit they did and probably wouldn't break 44 seconds . Stop hating

Yet no one else has ever done a 400m relay leg under 43 seconds (per the video). Also, a mid to high 43s run is still incredible, even today, but even moreso back then.

How is that not amazing? No one else has ever ran 42 point anything. If Michael Johnson had the advantage of these new shoes and the tracks they run on there's no question he would be the first person to run under 43

@@stephenwilliams7200 I'm just saying that the 400m wr both Jonhson's and Niekerk's are more amazing than that relay. Like it's just math, even admitting is 0.7 or 0.8 it's still a way slower time, there is not much more to it.

I, and most track people from back in the day, know him as Butch Reynolds.

@@leokashian8846 ahh yes ofc.....former record holder - thx ;)

yeah, it ventures into clickbait. johnson has put up some incredible records but there are atleast comparable records put up by sportsmen in other disciplines also

If bolt trained the 400 he would almost certainly have the record but at the end of the day Bolt preferred the 100/200 and is retired now

@@wyattcreeper6780 that's true

@@wyattcreeper6780 Bolt was made to run the 400 in high school and absolutely hated it! He did have the talent for it, no doubt.

Who's to know , the 400m is a bastard of an event maybe Bolt didn't have the stamina to do it at the highest level ??

Olympics were dope testing since 1968. Worlds pretty much around the same time. Granted it was fairly easy to beat those tests....until the late 80s when technology was vastly improved. Anything from 92 forward was insanely difficult to beat when it comes to Olympics and Worlds. The only thing that was still easily beatable was doing blood infusions for more oxygen in the blood which distance runners were using until the early 2000s when it became widely known. It's not to say that there weren't cheaters, because there were, and were caught later using their backup samples, but for Olympics and Worlds......far less likely.

So every record post 1960s?

@@troliskimosko That would be too simple to black and white. I'll not play that idiotic game. g'luck.

@@OoogaBoog linford Christie won in 92 a confirmed doper. Donovan Bailey came out of nowhere in 96 , broke the world record , never won anything after that. Maurice greene in 2000 was built like Ben Johnson and ran as fast as him too. Gatlin in 04 was retrieved for doping. ... Every athlete at that level is on something my guy.

@@OoogaBoog wtf? Athletes stopped doing blood transfusions in the early 90s when EPO came into the game. In 2000 they made the first test for EPO and everyone was scared so they started doing blood transfusions again.