The WORST Race In Sprinting History
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2023
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The same kind of trash talk occured in 2000 Olympic trials in 200m between Johnson and Maurice Green. In the warming up area before the race there were a lot of side eyes... they both start the race but none finished it because both got injured... and the same kind of injury... so none of them was qualified to race the 2000 OG 200m.
Man, I remember that, MJ wasn't phased by Mo, but Mo was getting worked up. The hype was real, crazy how it ended up.
I saw this race live on TV. It think that since Johnson was losing the race, he conveniently pulled a muscle.
💯💯💯
Same thing happened when it was Johnson vs Maurice Greene
Or since he was losing, he pushed himself harder than he should have and actually injured himself. Crazy how common sense actually works huh
@@Yahmeen The great thing about "Common Sense" is that it can be asserted to be true even without evidence.
Duh
I vividly remember Michael Johnson's reaction to Usain Bolt breaking his record. He seemed so proud of him!
TtcnZasd🎉
Not at first
The 1996 USA uniforms were amazing
1996 and 2000 uniforms were the best
Yip. Alot of today's designs are kind of lazy.
I'll never forget Bailey saying "He didn't pull up at all. He's just a chicken. He's afraid to lose. I think what we should do, we should run this race over again, so I can kick his ass one more time." 🤣
Awesome topic - you should do more of these historic videos 👏
This era was pretty exciting. It was like Mr Universe. Unlimited. The ultimate in unrestricted human performance.
Ha is that a subtle way of implying all these guys were totally juiced?
I remember it like yesterday. that race never mature well.but donovan bailey collect good money for that 1 race.
I don’t think we’ll ever see a pay out this MASSIVE ever again.
You forgot the part where Donovan Bailey called Michael Johnson a chicken! And you know what Johnson look for dat! He did so much smack talking against Bailey!
I'm from Toronto and watched this live. When Bailey won and broke the world record. It was almost the 1st time that the 100 M winnner wasn't given the title of Worlds Fastest Man. The 96 Olympics were in Atlanta/US and the US didn't want to give that title up. As Donovan said. He's a chicken😂😂😂😂😂 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I mean, in Canada's defense... nobody cares about Canada, so it is basically impossible to fail =)
I was there too in the stands, watched it live!! Like then, I noticed Johnson pulled up after he noticed he was getting smoked. As I watch in detail, slow motion etc. I still feel the same way.
I never seen so much denial then Baily winning. The USA went on a propaganda campaign. It was crazy.
@@adisakorij4528 You weren't in the stands. I was looking for you, and you were nowhere to be found.
I watched it too😂. I can't believe MJ stopped. Looking back they should have had at least 5 people in the race.
Johnson got burnt. Fact.
The 100 meter event was always viewed as being the defining event in so far as the "world's fastest man" title was concerned, until of course this event was won by a Canadian and with an American winning the 200 meter event, which of course brought with it the requirement for a redefinition of the title.
I was at this event, in a box for a friends 12th birthday party. I honestly haven't thought about this race in 25 years which is crazy given the hype it had the time. The whole event was incredibly undwerwhelming. Thanks for the nostalgia.
The US is always trying to move the goleposts 😂
Actually, being a huge country with a lot of West African descendants means the USA generally does win the sprints and it generally is fair and square. Just because the USA has right wing imperialist politics doesn't mean we can't play fair in the field of sport.
@@vernonfrance2974I didn't say you cheat,but Olympics they like to move the goalposts. and the US and Canada were big rivals. They had the Jamaicans running for them.
@@vernonfrance2974 Actually, I imagine what they were referring to was how Americans suddenly decided that the 200m record holder determines who the world's fastest man is when before and since it's always been the 100m record holder. Y'all got beat on your own turf and were extremely bitter about it, and this is a pattern with the US across sports. Arrogant winners and poor losers.
@@amyparker9816 Great observation and criticism! As a citizen of the US by birth I have experienced this on so many occasions. People here often think God only cares about us. "God Bless America." C'mon. If we can appeal to a higher power what is to stop us from asking Him to bless everyone like Tiny Tim did in "A Christmas Carol?"
Now, I am a pantheist and I see God in everything everywhere. None of this xenophobia for me! (I used to be like those others, I admit.)
@@vernonfrance2974 Exactly. The US certainly has a lot to be proud of, but I wish more Americans thought like you.
I very much remember all of this when it happened. It was such bullshit and so disrespectful to Bailey. 100m has always been called the fastest man. But when the US sucked at the 100m they tried to change it to their guy.
t was so great to see the haughty Johnson pretending to be injured.
This would have made a really good 5 minute video.
You must be new to this channel
@@Daniel-ng8fi I've been watching for a while.
And as usual about 40% too long each time :p
@@kimaboe yeah I agree....I watch all his videos at 2x speed, makes the running look funny, but is less annoying. I love the content, but yeah, it's always like it's a school assignment that you have to make a certain length so you just put in a bunch of pointless stuff and say the same thing 4 different ways
Johnson injured his ego and not his quad. He only pulled up coz he knows he was going to lose. He's a punk for that.
Apparently the film crew from the CBC fully expected the losing athlete to pull up and so they practiced their camera panning to account for that before the race. They didn’t know who would lose but were quite certain the loser would not finish the race. How right they were!
I remember watching this as a kid live on TV. Unlike the usual silence before the gun, the crowd was shrieking at the top of their lungs. After the race Bailey grabs the mic and calls Johnson a chicken. It was like you were watching a WWF wrestling match! It was maybe the most thrilling sporting event I ever watched as a kid. I wish we had more of these one on one trash talking match ups between sprinters. It would be great for the sport.
Watching this race live on tv is the single reason I started track 😂
Good memory flash back
I remember reading the article back then with that assumption of dividing the time by two. I was 15 years old and thought "how can you be that stupid..."😂
Yeah that was honestly stupid. I could have a faster average speed than Usain Bolt if his race was 1m long and mine was 60m.
He likely knew it was stupid and just wanted to generate hype.
Great video as always. The content is always interesting and excellent enough on its own that you don't need explosive but inaccurate titles. To me, that just detracts.
Johnson definitely faked it. I remember this vividly as a kid.
It's obvious that he pulled up on purpose because It looked like he knew he wasn't going to catch him. So he faked an injury. That's what it looked like to me.
Thing is he could’ve possibly catched him but his ego was bigger than his heart
1:26 1997 not 1987
There was a lot of beef. The whole race happened because The title of "The fastest man in the world" which is traditionally given to the 100m Champ, was being used by johnson since his 200m wr was faster average splits than the 100m wr at the time. Lots of beef. Practically arbys over there.
This was only because he was American. They hated the fact they didn't have the fastest man and started this whole splits thing. Obviously you can run faster if you're already running. Johnson was fast too, I actually wanted him to win. But Bailey was always the fastest man. That's the 100
I suspect this race is the main reason the Diamond League was even considered.
Danovan Bailey, Linford Christie and Ben Johnson were all Jamaican born. Just to show that Jamaicans have been performing exceptionally well on the tracks for a very long time.
Drugs are a hell of a drug!
Must sucks not being Jamaican huh?@@davidnelson7719
Yeah, Johnson did for sure... 😂
@@danle3181
Later on , 6 of the finalist were on drugs, including Carl Lewis and Linford Christie. They should banned the 6 finalist, not only Ben Johnson.
There was multiple Jamaican born on Qatar, Turkey, Bahrain etc. They free to choose where they represent for.
I love when the piano beats and theories come in.
I remember watching 1996 Olympic men 100 final live on tv. That was the longest moment final I've ever seen with 3 false starts. Donovan Bailey top speed was insane and he broke 100m world record.
I still has that memory.
What an amazing sprint methode from Donovan Bailey.
No one like him base on how to execute a 100 m race
Bro, that top speed was astounding at any moment.
Bailey mechanic blast phase is amazing.
Donovan Bailey is the man.
You probably remember Linford was the favourite after the semi finals, it was such a disappointing final after he got DQd he definitely had the form that year to match Bailey and the world record
@@cattycats4
I only watched the final, it took 40 - 45 minutes to go, Linford Christie wasted time by sitting on his lane, he refused to leave the track after get dq'd.
A tall official ran towards Christie to persuade him to leave the track, Christie refused, they almost fight.
Finally an old fat official managed to persuade Christie to leave the track.
I remember the local host's favorites were Linford and Frederiks, but a few names were also mentioned such as Dennis Mitchel and Michael Marsh.
Donovan Bailey was not a favorite, whenever Bailey is mentioned they always bring up Ben Johnson memorie in Seoul.
Before the Olympic, the track news is always about Bailey and Christie competed in europe.
@@cattycats4
I remember before the Olympic Bailey used to beat Christie at track.
The times usually 10,0.. to 10, 1... s.
In case Christie doesnt get dq'd , Bailey would still able to smoke him at 100m and I'm not sure Christie can get podium at that time.
"Two false start is enough for knowing Christie's attempt at the final"
Peace
@@murtinirarr767 I remember too, in the second heat Bailey was racing Linford but Bailey did not have enough at the end and Linford cruised to 1st place in 10.03, lane 8 had a blatant false start but was allowed to race, to me thats a much bigger difference than being under 0.100 but after the gun, probably why Linford was upset in the final, he shouldve been allowed to race under protest
Johnson faked an injury cuz he was losing😭
Exactly!
This should never have needed to happen. The title of the world's fastest man always goes to the 100 champion. Johnson and the US media were disrespectful for trying to give it to him.
I'm glad Bailey won but it was not disrespectful and they didn't "give" the title to him. He earned it and got paid handsomely for doing so. It was a Win/Win situation.
@@vernonfrance2974
After this race, the US media made some words, the fastest man on 100m, the fastest man on 200m , the fastest man on 400m... etc.
The world and the olympic 100m champion is the fastest man.
IMO Johnson pulled up when he realised he was going to lose. Bailey had a better top end and easily had the stamina to carry through 150m.
Amazing
It always drove me nuts that Pietro Mannea held the 200 record at 19.72 seconds from 1979 to 1996, which was faster than 2x the 100 record until 1991, and you correctly never heard anyone say, for example, Carl Lewis wasn’t the fastest man because you could divide the 200 time in 2. But then this “logic” is applied when comparing DB and MJ like it makes any sense.
It’s typical jingoism from the USA - it’s like the recent world swimming championships. Because Australia was spanking the US on the medal table their media suddenly started listing the table by most total medals as opposed to most gold which is how they had been doing it from the start of the meet and how they always do it otherwise.
@Ineddiblehulk except China was ahead of both in the aquatic games.
His race was in Mexico, Obviously altitude records shouldnt hold, conditions were all perfect with even 1.8m, but thats legal at least.
According to a rencent study for a 100m The results indicate that the time advantage of competing at an
altitude of 2250 m (Mexico) is about 0.19 ± 0.10 s
(but obviously americans convienently forgot him)
We need to see a 150m and 300m week long event that has Tebogo, Kerly, Niekirk, Knighton, Norman and Lyles
If they ran the 300 on Monday and 150m Thursday or Friday it would be something to behold
I remember watching it and feeling overly excited. The hype around this particular race was something I'd never seen before. Turned out to be the biggest let down in track and field ever.
Yeah I remember it too - it was an embarrassing moment for Johnson. Had he followed through it could’ve changed the trajectory of athletics.
Worlds fastest man is the winner of the 100 meter dash. Why would anyone think otherwise?
I think the world's fastest man has the WR in the 60m dash.
@@davidnelson7719 Nope. Lots of 100m athletes reach their top speed after 60m.
@@davidnelson7719 They do not reach a higher top end speed though.
@@blaze1148 Ok genius, what arbitrary distance do you set the top end speed at? Are you using a normal distribution or something you are pulling out of your butt?
The world fastest men used to give only for the Olympic and World 100m Champions.
After the Atlanta Olympic the US media lean on Johnson. That was weird and unfair acts.
I'm kinda surprised that TRP didn't cover Tseguy's world record?
id like to see more of these irregular distance races like the 150m 300m 500m i think they could be crowd pleasers plus u would also like this race get athletes competing against other athletes they normally wouldnt
500m? Lol to show what? 🙄🤷 That isn't between distances... 400 - 800? Lol...
@@greendemon4773 i didnt say any of them were between anything, i just said irregular distances, all those races exist already and the indoor 500m thats one of the world records that Femke Bol got this year
@@judsdragon 150m and 300m also exists.. But they're not oficial distances... They only show us points where diferent athletes can equally their performances between their main distances...
Johnson faked an injury in the 200 at the 2000 Olympic trials when he got a horrible start and it wasn't a given he'd make the team. It's also highly speculated that he lied about having food poisoning in the 1992 Olympics. Mike Marsh nearly broke the world record in the semi of the 200. Johnson saw that then didn't think he could win, so he purposely didn't make the final and lied about being sick.
How you know all of this
Video idea for you: which runner in history had the best overall range?
Michael Johnson was notorious for faking injuries and illnesses instead of taking an "L".
Imagine, Bolt ran 9.58 absolutely dismantling these records
and to add icing to the cake dude holds the 100m, 200m,150m and 4*100m records
Back then pulling a muscle was best way to avoid embarrassment. Donavon Bailey had great top end speed, looked at that 100m record race,and watch him come from the back and blow the field away.
Just noticed how similar Tebogo running gait is to Johnson’s, very upgright. Could Tebogo be a better version of Michael Johnson?
Event wise he is similar to Usain
@@ccbgaming6994 , Tebogo is still young. I don’t see the explosive power needed in the 100m, however, the 200 and 400 maybe where he is most optimized.
@demultiplexdfunc177 He literally came in 2nd at the world championships in the 100m
Johnson has poor form. Tebogo run very smooth with high knees. They do not look similar to me.
@@demultiplexdfunc177 What happened to him in the Diamond League Championships?
This was a bad look for Johnson. Dude couldn’t beat Bailey and conveniently pulled up with an injury. Reminds me of when Bolt did the same thing in his last 100m race
I can tell your not bias when you talk about Usain supposedly doing the same thing. I don't believer either of them faked an injury but the difference between you and the other commenters who say Johnson faked his injury is that they didn't bring Usain supposedly did the same thing in that other race because he was Jamaican so I know now that your not just saying that just because Johnson was American. Huge respect to you sir.
First of all, Bolt took the bronze in his open 100m, it was the 4 x 100m where he got injured. He had been suffering from hamstring problems, and they caught up to him. Also, Jamaica course still won the race, there would’ve been no reason for Bolt to fake
Bolt came in third in the 2017 world championships 100 meters. Did you miss that?
he pulled up with an injury and still ended up with a medal? thats pretty crazy
You forgot to mention Bailey called Johnson a chicken. Johnson pulled up with a fake injury after Bailey blew past him.
haven't you covered this race before?
I remember it as if it was yesterday.
Johnson bought into all the hype that surrounded him. Bailey's top speed was crazy back then, that was obvious to track and field aficionados.
Of course Johnson "pulled-up lame" when he saw he was going to get smoked. Many people were happy to see him exposed.
As a spectacle it was magnificent.
i’m an American but i believe micheal faked his injury not to get exposed, bro was already falling behind pretty fast within the first 75m of the race. like as in to the point where a comeback would’ve been unlikely fs
True legends are humble.
I was there. Such a letdown of a race. It was an incredibly poorly run event. Too bad Michael was a giant B and bailed out when he was losing.
I was there as well. You are correct in that the whole event was weak. The US couldn't handle the fact that the 100m champ was not an American.
@johnpodobnik4812 exactly! I just remember the whole thing having a distinctly disorganized and scattered feel to it. Like they were just winging it. They were forcing things.. running behind schedule..
@@JohnPodobnikRMT I am from the USA and I was happy Bailey won. We don't always like our own the best. Some I do and some I don't.
Damn taking my tiktok reel idea
Johnson was never gonna catch him
Johnson, like Sally Gunnel once did, was losing so badly that his only out was to "get injured".
What was "backwards thinking" in Americans supporting Johnson who's American, and Canadians supporting Bailey, who's Canadian?? Sounds about as straight forward as it can be.
I prefer 1 vs 1 like this as a boxer sprinter fight.
These 2 guy's was on top of their game. Unfortunately the race never matter well.when Michael Johnson broke the 200m record.i thought it gonna lost for 30 b4 it break again.but the great Usain bolt broke it.when he broke the 400m thought 35 b4 somebody came along to broke it.but vanieka broke. I think very soon them will be breaken again. Next couple of years R earlier.
Van Niekerk
The straight 220 yds was a fairly common event until about 50 years ago.
Johnson was the MAN when it came to the 400m!
I'm fairly confident Bailey would have held off and ran even faster than 14.99 in the 150m. Now had they raced 250m or 300m then edge goes to Johnson. This semi-flop and the Dan Johnson and Dan O'Brian flop was a blow to world athletics.
I always thought this race was stupid because they didn't run DURING the 1996 season, when they were at their peak.
The insane part of all of this, DB never ran track growing up, some guy seen him playing basketball as an adult and talked him into coming to track cause he saw some raw talent. Lol. And MJ whined and cried about having to run part the race as a curve, where he thought he had an advantage. MJ pulled up lame when DB made up the stager. Was a cowardly act. Guy was delusional. Bailey should have just trained the 200 and actually beat him. Feel like he could have.
The year before this race, in the space of 2 months? Johnson did a FloJo n single handedly lowered the 200m WR from 19.72-19.32, almost half a second. Theres no way on Gods green earth Bailey was getting anywhere close to him in the 200m, which is exactly why Bailey didnt "train the 200" nor compete in it.
same way De Grasse got into track lol.
Later in his track career Bailey injured his Achilles playing basketball and returned to run but lost some tenths of a second sure to that and or age
Was a big Johnson fan leading into the 1996 season. I thought this race was one of the most disappointing things I'd ever seen. Ego is a big thing.
Absolutely right to say this whole thing was a complete farce. We know how fast 100m runner can cover 100m with a flying start-even a suboptimal one - in the relay. Easily under 9 seconds flat so there never was any argument to be had in the first place. MJ never had elite speed, he just had all time great speed endurance. Bob Costas was just a big mouth without the required knowledge to be speaking.
Bob Costas was a great announcer and the publicity was good for track. Besides, Bailey got a great pay day.
Michael Johnson looks like if 21 savage were in finance 😂
6:43 That inequality is the wrong way round. 9.66 < 9.84
🎉🎉🎉🎉
I want this to happen with Jacob's and kerley as while as Noah and Coleman
This was maybe the best year for sports for me as a fan, broncos won sb and DB smashed the American whiner. Claimed he was the worlds fastest man by winning 200 and 400, lol. Bailey was destroying him when he pulled up lame
Well, he had a lame excuse.
1:25 1987?
MJ's official 150m split was 14.62s in that race
🏃🏻♂️ *fakes a quad rupture* 🐵
Yep, when u know you're losing, to avoid a blowout, you pull up with an injury...
ANd for the record Johnson bailed when he knew Bailey had him beat. No real injury, we all know the truth
Bailey won that challenge nothing more nothing less
Why didn’t we get any 800m running coverage this year?
it is very common for sprinters to average a faster average 100m time over 200m.
Those darn Jamaicans. Yes, Donivan Bailey, Jamaican.
At 1:25 is it 1987 or 1997❓
Slight mistake. The race was in June 1997, not 1987. I was like, it couldn’t be 1987 because bc I remember watching this race (I was born into he 80s)
*Fred Kerley vs Noah Lyles at 150m*
Who will win ?
It will be great watching this event.
*It should took place before the Budapest*
*Fred Kerley, the 2022 100m world champion vs Noah Lyles, the 2022 200m world champion*
*The states "media" is always lean on their athletes*
Recently Noah Lyles is the fastest man, the current world 100m champion.
He also the world 200m champion.
Following your post,
"Before Budapest", with the right amount prize, Fred Kerley would smoke Noah Lyles at 150m. 75 m short curve and 75 m straight, Kerley will win over Lyles.
I'm 50% sure that Johnson is Erriyon's real dad.
Didn’t michael Johnson also pull up against Maurice Greene ?
Bailey wanted to race atain on another day when johnson's "injury" heals to 100%. The race never happened 👀
Faking an injury is lame, period.
1:27 … 1997 or 1987?
They should have run it on a regular track or a straightaway. 75 meter curve was too out of the norm.
what happened to original title
Listen Johnson is an incredible sprinter who deserves a ton of respect which is obvous
However he also conveniently got hurt as soon as he noticed he was being smoked. Im not saying he faked it but there's certainly evidence to suggest he may have 🤷♂️
Either way 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
At 1:27. You made an error. You said June 1, 1997 but on the video it has June 1, 1987
Just fyi my friend...Graphic said 1987..not 1997
bro changed the thumbnail 3 three times 😭
In my opinion, Michael Johnson is the best sprinter of all time, because he achieved the records of two disciplines as different as the 200 and 400 meter dash
Enter Bolt, 100m,150m,200m records, No debate there
This event happens because of the states media keep telling Michael Johnson as the fastest man thus the sadly thing is Michael Johnson claim himself as the fastest man.
I remember few months after the Olympic there was an adidas commercial of Donovan Bailey as the fastest man.
Bailey got the real bag after Olympic.
The 100m winner is the fastest man on earth.
The sport column on newspaper keep brought the debate about who the fastest man is ?
Most article stated Bailey as the fastest man, but the us media lean on Michael Johnson.
I does not watch this 150m race but I knew it in the morning from the newspaper.
The photo of Donovan Bailey cross the finish line and grab 1.500.000 us dollar, the time was flat 15 seconds, not wrote as 14,99 s.
Donovan Bailey is the 100m world record holder, how could anyone doubt about him.
Stated the newspaper.
It also due of Bailey and friends beats US team at 1996 olympic relay men 4 x 100m.
The US stated they Will take revenge on the relay and get gold on US soil.
Dennis Mitchel could not catch Bailey.
After the race, Dennis Mitchell saying he could pass Bailey if there was any 10 meters left 😂
No way Mitchell could catching Donovan Bailey.
@@arinamoon7319
Mitchell could not able shadowing Bailey
If there any 10m left Bailey would widen the gap from Michell even more 😅
Back in the day, Canada ruled over 4 x 100m relay.
I was there. Bailey had his number. Even if Johnson didn’t get injured he wasn’t going to win. Bailey was simply faster. Doesn’t take anything away from Johnson. He was a phenomenal athlete but he was never the fastest man in the world and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t understand basic Newtonian mechanics. Bob Costas is a tool.
So fkin obvious that the fastest 100M sprinter > the fastest 200M sprinter in terms of being the fastest man in the world in top speed without sustainability considerations, otherwise the 200M sprinter can jus go win both the 100M and the 200M... U think Johnson wouldn't want a 100M medal along with his 200 and 400M medals?