Johnson was so much cooler when he ran from the front! He was tough and brave!
Johnson was so much cooler when he ran from the front! He was tough and brave!
I liked him better too!!!!!!!!
yeah im sure his coach loved how he would make letsrun posters happy and then get passed in the last 50m at championship races.
I liked him better when his hair was more shaggy
Hey! The only time it did not work for him was at the Olympics! He had had long season too at that point!He won NCAA's that way! He could be like Johny Grey except better, and Johny Grey didn't have too bad of career....BRONZE MEDAL 1992!!!!!
big bobby wrote:
Johnson was so much cooler when he ran from the front! He was tough and brave!
Plus, you got to watch his derriere from your spot in the back.
Out.
He was more exciting as a front runner, but he was selling himself short anyway.
It may have worked in the NCAAs, but he found that when he raced the world class guys that way, they just sat on him. The problem may be more that he was a 1:44 guy trying to run away from 1:42 guys, but you can't race the same way every time unless you are good enough to dominate like Wariner. The best guys aren't dumb.
Personally, I'd rather see him just forget about it and just train to try to run a 1:42, but you do need to be able to race from different kinds of tactics. Remember Kipketer.
He use to be like the black PRE!!!
big bobby wrote:
He could be like Johny Grey except better, and Johny Grey didn't have too bad of career....BRONZE MEDAL 1992!!!!!
Better than Johnny Gray?
Gray owns the top 5 marks by an American. 14 of the top 20 American marks ever - all of them under 1:43.60 - more than a second faster than johson has ever run.
Trody wrote:
He use to be like the black PRE!!!
But Pre finished 4th. If I was black, I think I'd rather be the black Viren or the black Billy Mills.
and still be alive too!
I personally think that Johnson can be the first under 1:40 if he goes back to his front running style!
Johnson = toughest man on earth
I liked JJ's front running too, until he got carried away. Going out in 23.0 was a bit much for a 1:46-47 guy.
Can't help but think that his career's paralleling Lekote's, another front runner who inexplicably went downhill. Hopefully though JJ's not done yet.
Ah yeaz, we be on the old exaggeration train again.
First under 1:40? In a word,
Please.
WHo says JJ isn't front running anymore?
he needs to stop pumping the iorn