What They Never Told You About America's Greatest Sprinter 

Wow I never thought of that. Good observation 👍😎

In the world of professional street skating, there was also MJ flying down handrails and flights of stairs (Marc Johnson).

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Mick jagger Mary j blige Michael j fox Marion Jones Magic Johnson Marc Jacobs Montell Jordan Mary Jane (420) or (candy) or (Spider-Mans girlfriend).

@@eamparbeng omg, 🤦🏽‍♂️.

And at a time when we only had tv lol

Indeed. Wondering what this video is going on about. Johnson is one of the great atheletic legends.

actually it was easier back then with only TV to get more worldwide recognition than today with internet.

Exactly,Michael was know world wide in a time without internet so we had no choice but to know him.Usain Bolt is know worldwide despite us being distracted by other shows on the internet.

Internet actually makes harder to earn the status of a true legend- TV era had the side effect of total platform domination.

There were two MJ's in basketball at the same time. There are way too many Michael's. We even have multiple famous Michael Jordan's.

And MJ flying across the mic

after MJ flying across the moon

@@justintime7351 across the stage*

You forgot Magic Johnson also

Hell yea

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Johnson was a statistical anomaly. He ran times that were not even fathomed by T/F statisticians. Michael Johnson was all but unbeatable.

Dont forget the silver and red spiridons too

@@johnsrous1616 Bailey disagreed

That was the greatest races of alltime for the 200m. Although Bolt broke it. Its was the winning margin..it was INSANE. To take 0.34 seconds off your own world record. The only thing that surpasses it. Is the insane 400m hurdle final in Tokyo. Where Karsten Warholm took 0.76 seconds off his world record. That was unreal.

I was actually fortunate enough to be in the stadium when he broke the 200m record at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. I like to think that my presence in the crowd gave him the good luck he needed to break the world record! 😅

He's the reason i started running track

And people that are 13

I'm 20 and I definitely know him. He had the 400m record until recently. He is still legendary.

15 and know about him ahooooo

WELL SAID

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Other things: the physical courses run by the men were different. The quality of the Competition affects the performance of the runner.

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You typed all that to basically say Bolt had fhe internet Johnson did not?

Michael Johnson did it before him. He remains the GOAT for me.

Nah,, MJ is the GOAT sprinter

@@krisvq nice joke

@@fender1000100 facts homie.

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that who they are....then and now..

Bolt would probably be slightly quicker, not by much though. At 400m Johnson would reign supreme though, as he was a better endurance sprinter rather than shorter distance explosive sprinter. Both 🐐 🐐 in their own right.

@@westcoast747 Had Johnson not trained the 400m, but 100m instead, his 200m would've looked differently and likely be even faster. The 400m training is very different here and may compromise the pure speed.

@@amjan Where is here?

@@westcoast747 I guess the specific aspect of speed.

The thing about the shorter spring races is that adrenaline or drive to win can make up a gap. In long distances not so much

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True, but my prize for most beautiful and effortlessly elegant running style goes to Allyson Felix. Although I think Flo Jo had the most flawless form

@@proverbalizer FloJo doesn't count, she was doped.

@@SilencedButNotForgotten Flo Jo has flawless running form. You can be mad, but it's a fact

yES...but BOLT is the LEGEND!!

You should watch the movie The Number 23

Excellent work here. Comprehensive and thoughtful. Subscribed!

Good for correcting yourself. Nice video, TRP.

@j j bolt also is 15 years ahead. During the 90s the health and wellness workout was quite a bit different than what they are now. If they both would have ran in the 90s, johnson would have definitely won any race vs bolt.

@@skootskeet In your dream if Micheal Johnson was running against Bolt in the 1990's Bolt would be the winner check the times that Bolt ran and see for yourself

Yes he is calm and the voice of reason

Bolt: 2012(or was it 2009?) to 2020.. Still counting

And in the 400 hurdles? The longevity to run that race alone for that long, muchless unbeaten.

Trevor Dennis big time!!

Ed Moses also won 107 consecutive finals

Dr.Edwin Moses record of 107 STRAIGHT VICTORIES IN TRACK'S MOST STRENUOUS SPEED RACE IS UNDOUBTEDLY " THE PINNACLE" OF ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT.IT IS FAR AND AWAY AND SINGULAR - " THE G.O.A.T" PERIOD.🎓🗽

Yup . It’s like trying to milk a none issue just to create a you tube video. I am sure if we look hard enough , you may find an Under 16 athlete with records that may surpass both usain and MJ in his or her field . Or like trying to compare pele or Messi as footballs GOAT. They are just not comparable and both were amazing in their respective fields and era

I was about to say what kind of bullshit is this.

It's about the impact they made on the sport, and breaking records by bigger margins has a bigger impact.

@@jeyan65 That person is Erriyon Knighton. He's beaten Bolt's youth record several times.

He's from the era where new PEDs were so far ahead of doping tests conducted that it's super easy to get away with doping... Not saying he's guilty but the American doping test system was so corrupt during that period.... Even Carl Lewis admitted to failing doping test and claimed HUNDREDS of American athletes were caught during his time and allowed to escape bans. Most were never charged including himself.

The Lance Armstrong 1999 Cortisone saddle cream incident is similar to what you have just mentioned. believe it or not WADA is only a new organisation relative to the history of the sport only established in 1999, before then anti-doping practices and procedures were inconsistent (and to a certain still are). Having attended conferences and spoken to people with links to WADA and have to deal with WADA, I get the impression that many see them acting like dictators influenced by ideology (yet again some of those who say that who are athletes are probably doping). Many athletes feel uncomfortable with saying anything but the strict WADA line in case they are branded as dopers, Morgan Lakes tweet about two-faced nature of people not expressing their true feelings on how to improve Anri-doping. recently Whsilte blowing has become a big topic in literature especially with Kelsey Ericson's work on the so-called 'True ethical dilemma' and the fact that many of the major doping scandals only came to the fore because of whistleblowers i.e. BALCO, Russia, Nike Oregan Project. yet for some in the upper echelons of WADA there is a possible perception that whistleblowers are just dopers and the only good that can come from them is that they are taken out of the sport. this old fashioned opinion can be summed up by Craige Reedie who stated to RTE "I do not deal with Whilsteblowers, other people deal with them not us [meaning WADA]". This is problematic. Sorry for the long response but regarding Johnson what makes him different is that although he has the same old fashioned opinions of the WADA upper echelons he is willing to listen, debate and adapt and same things that many athletes feel they are unable to say thusly he is outspoken and as a result a breathe of fresh air in my opinion.

@Richard_Head Ah so it is different then.

@Richard_Head it wasn't under the allowable limit at the time of the testing in 1988. At the time pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, were banned stimulants. He tested positive for them 3 times. He was supposed to be banned but US Olympic committee over turned the ruling siting that Lewis accidentally and unknowingly took the stimulants.

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@@Mladenac 'From' not "by."----The number 42 referenced is from the book 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' written by Douglas Adams.

Phelps has 23 swimming gold medals.

I doubt it unless we are talking the 400. Michael sure could haul ass though.

Bolt would have got him, although MJ will forever be my favorite, Bolt revolutionize running because his height & speed, hard combo to beat. No different how some of these NBA guys who are 6'8-9" with point guard handles

Talking about technology helping reduce the record time? Don’t forget the same technology brought better timing than previous years. If you use these timing techs now to time previous records they might be higher. Let’s not do this. Both are great in their times.

FACTS

Y'all are speaking in what ifs and hypotheticals, we don't know if he'd run faster please stop doing this.

Wow I didn't know that.

What a load of horse manure.

Because 80% of people are too ADD to watch a track race longer than one minute.

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Oh boy, the greatest is defined by popularity rather than achievement, you are a shallow person arent you

Totally agreed

One of? He is the greatest 400m runner of all time, no doubt hands down! The numbers do not lie!!

Facts!

Even in the US we love Bolt the most but Johnson won back-in-my-day and he's very special to me -- but Bolt is a big time winner and loveable character

@@mj3332 and who holds the record now?

I think both are great but even Michael said it. Bolt is the greatest he has seen! He was flabagassed when Bolt ran 19:19m in the 200m.

LOL, dude, so you're saying Bolt's form was less textbook than Johnson's?? That's hilarious.

when did he wear gold sneakers

Bolt smashes Johnson

Good luck. I had to take a little time off. It’s frustrating for sure.

ayyyy me too good luck friend

Good luck and enjoy 👍.

I had a great run yesterday! Probably my best run since going from a non runner to a runner a month ago. Thank you all and good luck on your runs as well!

I didn’t know about Micheal Johnson but I was born in 2004 maybe people born in 2000 and later didn’t know about him

Not much faster, chains barely decrease your speed.

@@philomenaakpanaadie2015 I'm guessing you're the least funny among your family and friends.

@@jimmyb4982 Whoosh! Over his head it went, and if he shaved that moustache

I ran track and that chain was all over the place, so the chain slows him down but not by much but by enough to set another new record

@@PhillyTTV If there was any chance it slowed him down, he would've taken it off. The guy's knowledge about running and the sport is second to none. And he was that ambitious as a young man that he would've taken out his left nut if he thought it would've helped. You're not for one minute claiming you know something that completely evaded him, are you? That would be embarrassing.

As a teenager of the 90s, I think many of these younger sprinting fans missed the trick 😉

Don’t forget they don’t do anti dopping in Jamaica.

@Teddy300 that's such crap you are chatting. Bolt was extremely talented as a junior athlete but he was just unrefined. Bolt broke the junior 200m world record in his time. Please know the facts before typing complete nonsense.

@@thiago140893 - right but they test at every international event no? You really think that the international athletic bodies would allow a Jamaican to cheat like that? Get real!! If you want to know about cheating check the history of the US 1984 Olympic team..but you gotta search really good because it was a big cover up...

No they do not test every athlete at every event LOL

@@fastinradfordable - read carefully, that's not what I said....

Everything stopped when micheal ran if you remember and were alive at that time. He was just as fascinating

MJ admitted to using steroids

@@shiklaks to you?

@@Profitfromcoaching to a camera fool

@@Profitfromcoaching im just joking, amazing athlete Bolt is just the king

He's probably responding to this question: 11:48

Ur an idiot. TRP just gave a bunch of comparisons where they stacked fairly evenly.

I agree..just give Jack his jacket.. If he was not from the Caribbean would we be doing this????

Dats Marquis 😂😂😂😂

Age of the internet.

The 400m is the hardest race there is though.

True its the Blue Ribbon but if you look at the average speed of these guys, the 200 is quicker

You must be a newbie here.

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then you are a new born baby

Supernova nah I read the title and had a brain fart. I’ve actually been subscribed for over a year now believe it or not😂

PSC MEDIA yes. I am a baby, but not a new born unfortunately

Ed Moses

The Donavan Bailey race tarnished Johnson's greatness... It was the American press that put Johnson behind the 8 ball, calling him the fastest man on earth and he couldn't live up to it... Because he wasn't.

@@DaveOuellette-BuzzYourBrand I mean Johnson was dominating all his races 200m 400m

Facts

In the 200 really close van niekurk. Is better than both of them. Only man to run 400 in 44 or faster. 300 world recor. Under 20 in 200. And 100 under 10. More versatile.

The big difference between the two.... bolt was clean.

@@camdav8323 you mean, uncaught

Andrei-Daniel B If Johnson was clean, lance Armstrong was clean

Bolt was the third leg? If so, that may be why, because the first and fourth leg splits are always the most accurate. Especially the first leg, because they are starting from a standstill instead of already moving when their individual split starts.