Michael Johnson's Olympic recap - Day Five
Michael Johnson says that the mens 100m final on Sunday was the 'greatest' race he's ever seen.
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00:00Last night's 100m men's was the greatest 100m race I've ever seen.
00:09I thought this was going to be five or six guys who could win it.
00:12It should probably come down to the line and it absolutely did.
00:16Five thousandths of a second separating first place and second place.
00:21And most people just couldn't see with the naked eye who won that race.
00:26I could see Noah coming through at the end
00:28and it's typically the athlete that's coming on
00:31that actually is the one that wins when you have a photo finish.
00:35Hello.
00:36Can I get a pound of chocolate?
00:39Yes.
00:43You're welcome.
00:44Appreciate it.
00:46It's got to be the flakiest pound of chocolate ever.
00:49Look at that.
00:50That's crazy.
00:51Doing multiple events at an event like the Olympic Games,
00:54can you talk about that motivation behind doubling or tripling?
00:57When an athlete decides to double,
00:59you're likely putting yourself at a disadvantage
01:03against the competition in one of your events
01:05because they're only going to be doing that one event.
01:08But even if you're running your hardest event or your most competitive event first,
01:13you're still having to now make sure you're not thinking about that other event
01:17and not getting ahead of yourself.
01:19When I doubled in 96, I had to make sure that I wasn't thinking about the 200
01:22before I finished the 400.
01:24So it's a really difficult balance.
01:27I think Stephane Hassan, going for three events,
01:325,000, 10,000, marathon,
01:34what she's really interested in and she's excited about with this Olympics
01:38is the journey, which is the attempt to go out there
01:42and be the best that she can at all of those different events.
01:45So I think she just loves the competition.
01:48She loves competing.
01:49She loves challenging herself.
01:51And I think that if she doesn't win a single medal,
01:54she will not regret her decision.
01:57How do you define the greatest of all time?
01:59For me, the greatest of all time is pretty simple.
02:03You know, if you as an athlete and your career stands out above all others
02:09as compared to the other greats,
02:11I mean, there's a greatest of all time.
02:13You know, you think about, let's say, women's 100 meters.
02:15Shellyann Fraser Price is the GOAT.
02:17Think about somebody like Usain Bolt is the GOAT.
02:19I mean, I would put him up there.
02:21I'd put myself, you know, right there, but I'd put him there
02:24because when you think about me repeating as Olympic champion
02:27three times, 100 meters, 200 meters, world records,
02:30world records that probably, you know, we always say that.
02:33People say that about my record, and he broke it.
02:35But I literally believe that 9.58 in the 100 meters
02:38is not going to be broken in our lifetime.