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Johnson doubled the difficulty

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 29, 2000

The combination of competing in both 200 meters and 400 meters is rare. Not often in history do we find a fast man with so much endurance - or an endurance man with so much speed. For the first nine decades of the 20th century, no male runner had ever won both these races in a major event. Enter Michael Johnson. "There's always been a stereotype," he said. "If you ran the 200, you also ran the 100. If you ran the 400, that was all you did." Johnson started with the 200 and, unlike most run ...

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