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Johnson on track for second gold medal He's confident but won't let his guard down
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Michael Johnson is wearing a black cap inscribed with the words
"Danger Zone." He plays with it during an interview, adjusting it,
pulling it down low on his forehead.
Call it his insecurity blanket.
The cap reminds him that he's treading on dangerous ground, where
one stumble out of the blocks can end his quest for a second gold
medal in the Centennial Olympic Games.
There is no margin for error in the 200 meters.
"You've got to be aggressive, you've got to be m...
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VAULTER HAS GOLD MEDAL OON HIS MIND: PREVIEW - LAWRENCE JOHNSON.(SPORTS)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: Tom Robinson\ From Atlanta\ Lawrence Johnson picked up the ringing telephone and listened. He nodded. ``The Today Show on Saturday Johnson said. ``Fine. That's with the gold medal, right Somebody will own that pole vaulting medal by Saturday morning. Might as well be Johnson, even though
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JOHNSON HINTS AT INNOCENCE, LOOKS BEYOND LOSS OF GOLD MEDAL
The Boston Globe
; ... the world's press wanted answers to the news that Johnson had been disqualified because ... asleep, leaving a city just waking to the news of the scandal that forced his flight ... night before when, at 2 a.m., he got the news from his coach, Charlie Francis. The Canadian ...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES: FRIDAY-AUG. 24, BEIJING; Olympics presents Johnson with two tough goals; The former major league manager wants to win the gold medal and show Olympic officials that baseball belongs in the Games.(SPORTS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: JIM SOUHAN; STAFF WRITER The face looks craggy these days, but, then, the face was always craggy. Davey Johnson grew up in the heat of Florida and Texas, and that heat seemed to wick the moisture from his face at a young age, leaving him with a hangdog expression before his time. I like it
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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JOHNSON REPEATS GOLD MEDAL IN 400.(Sports)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Oh, and by the way, Michael Johnson won the men's 400-meter run again. Four years after he was the biggest story of Olympic track and field, Johnson was virtually a complete afterthought yesterday despite becoming the first man to win consecutive gold medals in the 400. On a night when the eyes of
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IOC Strips Johnson Of Gold Medal in 100; Canadian Tests Positive for Steroid Use
The Washington Post
; Olympic 100 meters champion Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal by the International Olympic Committee Tuesday after testing positive for an anabolic steroid called stanozolol, the IOC medical commission said. The announcement of Johnson's disqualification from the Olympics rocked the Games,
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