Inside Michael Johnson's athletics revolution: Olympic legend reveals his superplan to challenge tennis and golf... and the two-word mantra epitomising the American's ambitious vision There is a particular quirk of athletics that has long puzzled Michael Johnson.
Athletes must run both of the two distances in their 'category' at each meet, with 48 stars contracted as 'racers' to compete on all four weekends, and others to be signed as 'challengers' for one or two.
'I have asked around to try to figure out why that is still the case and I have not got a good, solid answer,' the American legend tells Mail Sport.
But he thinks he has now come up with a concept to take track to a whole new level – and put it on a par with sports such as tennis and golf.
Why, in a sport where milliseconds decide medals, must runners attach a piece of paper to their singlet with safety pins to display their name?.
