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...runner, Johnson began to blossom in his senior year, though he was still only the third best sprinter in Texas upon graduation. When Hart recruited Johnson for Baylor, located 100 miles south of Dallas, the coach thought he was just getting another runner for his 4 x 100-m relay team. "I didn't see him as a Southwest Conference champion, much less a national champion," says Hart. "But it's not the first time I was wrong, or the last." Johnson might have made the 1988 Olympic team as a sophomore, but he suffered a stress fracture...
There are those who think Johnson lacks a certain charisma. All right, it's Carl Lewis. The popular sprinter and long jumper was quoted last year on the lack of excitement in track, saying, "Michael Johnson, he doesn't have it." To which Johnson says, unexcitedly, "Well, Carl and I don't get along very well...
...Atlanta's Olympic stadium in May, two officials watch a Ukrainian pole vaulter prepare for his first jump. The vaulter has been rooted in hypnotic concentration for almost two minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground and proceeds to rocket, upside...
...joins junior sprinter Shane Mauricette on the sidelines. Mauricette, perhaps Harvard's top sprinter, had to take leave for the semester for non-track related medical reasons...
...Princeton has been getting a lot better each year," senior sprinter Jen Chertow says. "It's almost like they've come out of nowhere to beat us. Now they are team to beat...