Allen Johnson
Allen Johnson
Allen Kenneth Johnsonis a retired American hurdling athlete who won the gold medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a four-time world champion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHurdler
Date of Birth1 March 1971
CountryUnited States of America
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Liu is a great athlete and I congratulate him to win. I know Liu is extremely popular in China and I am very excited about this new event and the fact that I raced against Liu in his hometown. This is my first visit to Shanghai and I love this place. I am very surprised with the reception we have been having.
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Liu is a great athlete and I congratulate him to win, ... I know Liu is extremely popular in China and I am very excited about this new event and the fact that I raced against Liu in his hometown. This is my first visit to Shanghai and I love this place. I am very surprised with the reception we have been having.
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I felt like I was being blown backwards,
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We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.
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He's a great kid. He's been coached in football his whole life. His dad has been a Pop Warner coach for 30 years, so you know what you're going to get from him. I'm really impressed with how he played in this game.
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His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued.
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He is very fast, but there's no main rivals in the world championships.
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We enjoyed this one, but it would have been much sweeter if we'd have won last week.
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To like these kinds of cars, you have to be a romantic who loves history, ... When you fix them yourself, you're not just getting into the heads of the designer but into the heads of the guys who made the tools for the designer. It's an incredible trip.
I was more grassroots, ... They wanted someone out of the box.
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We're evaluating it with the sports commission. We're certainly going to look at it, especially the boys. We're definitely going to look into it to see if the economics work. The mayor, Buddy Dyer, likes the tournament.
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Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.
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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
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We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.