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During all my career, whenever I went to the start line feeling healthy, I never thought I would lose,I was only beaten once thinking like that, by Frankie Fredericks over 200m in Oslo in 1996.

— Michael Johnson

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It has been a fantastic career.

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First of all you have to acknowledge the pressure, but you can't ignore it. That's the mistake a lot of athletes make.

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