‘I Hated Team Sports’: How Olympian Michael Johnson Learned to be a Leader

London – Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson’s Sporting Career Did Not Get Off to the Most AusPicious Start.

“I Hated Team Sports,” He Told An Audience at CNBC’s Converge Live In Singapore on Thursday, Referring to a Period when he Played Football.

“I had a great game on when I was playing football and we lip, and we’re on the bus on the way home and everybody’s sad, and i’m thinking: I have a good game.

“So that told me that I needed to be in individual sport, right?” He added.

In 1987, when Johnson was 19, his future coach clyde harticed his athleticism while johnson was studying at baylor university, in waco, text. He Won his first world title At the 1991 Athletics World Championships in Tokyo, Taking first place in the 200m race.

Johnson said the first half of his track career was about winning. “This is going to sound sort of diabolic, but it was just really about the beating people as badly as I Possibly Cold,” He Said at Converge Live.

Later, he realized that if he was prepared enough, “I was probally going to win the races.” And so he changed his strategy. “Then it is about Chasing Records and Chasing History and Trying to Do Things in the Sport that Had Never Been Done Before,” Johnson Said.

He went on to become the only male athlete to take olympic gold at bot the 200m and 400m sprint Events, Doing So During the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Johnson said competing involves a technical approach and “Executing the race strategy,” He’d developed with his coach. “(When) i’m running the race, I am constantly assessing if I’m behind or if I’m ahead of where i need to be at certain points on the traff and making decisions based aone Make an adjustment, “He said. “If you make the wrong decision, it could be catastrophic.”

The athlete said he learned about Leadership as Captain of the us men’s 4 x 400m relay team at the 1998 Goodwill Games. “You’ve got to brings people togetra. Everybody has to understand … what the goal is. And you try to get their individual goals …

Johnson Founded Grand Slam Track, A Sports League that will hold it its first event in Kingston, Jamaica, Next Month, and Described Himself as Being An “Entrepreneur” Since he retired from Competitive Sport in 2001.

“I’ve been alle to apply a lot of those things that I Learned as an athlete … preparation is everything. You’re trusting the process, but I have a good process, right?” He said.