Did Michael Johnson fake the injury?
Eric Buckley
Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Regarding the controversy over the "injury" that Michael Johnson
> sustained during the 150M race with Donovan Bailey, time will tell.
> Apparently the qualifying races for the world championships are 10 days
> from now. If Johnson really did tear a quad, he won't be capable of
> running in the qualifiers.
Well, no, let's be fair. Johnson said he pulled up because he felt like
the muscle was going to go. Still seems pretty strange to pull a quad,
but if it was just a small tear, then pulling up might have saved his
chance for running worlds.
> Still, it didn't look like Johnson had much of a chance of catching
> Bailey on the straightaway. I think that he was surprised when Bailey
> passed him at the 60M mark.
No argument here, he was smoked and I'm sure he knew it.
> I wonder when we'll be seeing a rematch.
Hopefully, never. It's wrecked my favorite news group.
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Jonathan Brown
Chris Yuzik <cyu...@fractalweb.com> wrote in article
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> Regarding the controversy over the "injury" that Michael Johnson
> sustained during the 150M race with Donovan Bailey, time will tell.
> Apparently the qualifying races for the world championships are 10 days
> from now. If Johnson really did tear a quad, he won't be capable of
> running in the qualifiers.
>
In my humble opinion, I think it was strange and inappropriate to see
Michael Johnson sustain an injury in the middle of the race. I mean, did
you see the massage he got in the locker room? Hey, I'm no professional
here but isn't that supposed to prevent any sort of injury?
It's gotta be the shoes ;-)
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Jonathan Brown
jbr...@synapse.net
De Cancerous One
Chris Yuzik <cyu...@fractalweb.com> wrote:
>Regarding the controversy over the "injury" that Michael Johnson
>sustained during the 150M race with Donovan Bailey, time will tell.
>Apparently the qualifying races for the world championships are 10 days
>from now. If Johnson really did tear a quad, he won't be capable of
>running in the qualifiers.
>
I dont think he was faking it. He found himself in a situation
unfamiliar to himself of not being in the lead on the turn.
He pressed very hard and his leg gave out.
Bailey is very used to running from behind made sure that
he was not going to be left around the turn. The time was slow
and this was due to being early in the season and also not
running heats and semis.
Remember that Fedricks was the only person to beat mike
in the 200 and this was done by getting to the straight before
mike.
>Still, it didn't look like Johnson had much of a chance of catching
>Bailey on the straightaway. I think that he was surprised when Bailey
>passed him at the 60M mark.
Not surprised but shocked,
>I wonder when we'll be seeing a rematch.
>
Hopefully there will be rematch, but this definately should
include Cristie, Bolton and Fredricks.
>Your thoughts?
>
>Chris
>
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Ronnie Townsend
Chris Yuzik wrote:
>
> Regarding the controversy over the "injury" that Michael Johnson
> sustained during the 150M race with Donovan Bailey, time will tell.
> Apparently the qualifying races for the world championships are 10 days
> from now. If Johnson really did tear a quad, he won't be capable of
> running in the qualifiers.
>
> Bailey on the straightaway. I think that he was surprised when Bailey
> passed him at the 60M mark.
>
>
The naivete (not my first choice of words) on this newsgroup never
ceases to amaze me. It would have been an absolute shock to me had
Bailey *not* been ahead of Michael Johnson at least through the first
100 meters. The reasons for this ought to obvious to all but the casual
observer. Something about setting a world record in the event or some
other insignificant detail like that. The question all along has been
Bailey's ability to sustain enough of his speed to hold off Johnson as
he gets to his top gear and that 400 meter strength kicks in. Nobody,
including Donovan, believes Bailey could beat Johnson in the 200. If
he did, he would have challenege Michael in the 200. Anybody who
doesn't think Johnson could have caught Bailey is just out of touch
with reality and doesn't understand sprinting.
Ronnie T.
Jason Man-Kai Yeung
Ronnie Townsend <ron...@pyramid.com> writes:
>The naivete (not my first choice of words) on this newsgroup never
>ceases to amaze me. It would have been an absolute shock to me had
>Bailey *not* been ahead of Michael Johnson at least through the first
>100 meters. The reasons for this ought to obvious to all but the casual
>observer. Something about setting a world record in the event or some
>other insignificant detail like that. The question all along has been
Many thought that the turn would give an advantage back to Johnson and
do some part to neutralize Bailey's better start and great 40-80m
running. Besides going a tad wide in the turn, Bailey ran the
corner extremely well.
>Bailey's ability to sustain enough of his speed to hold off Johnson as
>he gets to his top gear and that 400 meter strength kicks in. Nobody,
>including Donovan, believes Bailey could beat Johnson in the 200. If
>he did, he would have challenege Michael in the 200. Anybody who
In a post race comment, Bailey did say he would train for the 200m and
'beat Johnson in his own race.' Looking forward to the next World Track
and Field championships. =)
>doesn't think Johnson could have caught Bailey is just out of touch
>with reality and doesn't understand sprinting.
Jason
jye...@sfu.ca
Oleg Shpyrko
Ronnie Townsend (ron...@pyramid.com) wrote:
:
: The naivete (not my first choice of words) on this newsgroup never
: Bailey *not* been ahead of Michael Johnson at least through the first
Well, it is not that obvious to me, and I guess to at least half of other
newsgroup readers. I guess you underestimate value of curve.
Running on the curve is VERY different from running straight, and Bailey
wasn't training for it. Johnson, on the other hand is a "King of the
curve" - remember? Bailey understood that curve is his weak side, that's
why he made so much noise about track being steeper than in agreement, and
the choice of the tracks.
My view of what should have happened (obviously Bailey surprised everyone
by showing pretty good time at the curve - he didn't run 200 m for a
while, and his 200 PR is not good at all, compared with Mike's, whereas
his 100m time is not that different from Mike's):
Bailey would "jump out" because he has a much better start, but curve
would kill him, and Johnson would have a significant lead by the end of
the curve. Bailey would use his 100m abilities to catch up, but I
predicted that Bailey wouldn't be able to get him - too big difference
in 200m times compared to that of 100m. Well, again, Bailey surprised
everyone (and I guess Johnson and himself in the first place) by running
an excellent time on the curve.
I guess it is kind of too late to say that "it was obvious that Bailey
would have a lead at 100m" - then you should have posted it last week,
when this ng was full of "johnson is the winner" kind of posts.
I myself thought so, although was hoping that Bailey would win so that
he won't loose his rightfully earned in Atlanta title.
Now I am not sure at all that Bailey wouldn't want to try and beat
Johnson at 200m - I guess he is not the man he was 2 years ago at 200m.
He might wanna try... I guess this would be even more humiliating for
Johnson - that's one of the reason Bailey's gonna try it...
Oleg
: 100 meters. The reasons for this ought to obvious to all but the casual
: observer. Something about setting a world record in the event or some
: other insignificant detail like that. The question all along has been
: Bailey's ability to sustain enough of his speed to hold off Johnson as
: he gets to his top gear and that 400 meter strength kicks in. Nobody,
: including Donovan, believes Bailey could beat Johnson in the 200. If
: he did, he would have challenege Michael in the 200. Anybody who
: doesn't think Johnson could have caught Bailey is just out of touch
: with reality and doesn't understand sprinting.
: Ronnie T.
RR
> Hopefully there will be rematch, but this definately should
> include Cristie, Bolton and Fredricks.
>
>>Your thoughts?
>>
>>Chris
>>
My thoughts on this are that the next time, if there is one, the
showdown should be a 100m race. The sprinters you mentioned
should all be invited.
RR