Michael Johnson

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I had always been outspoken about doping in our sport and still am and just didn't want to have my name associated with that metal.

And so, yeah, so I gave it back.

Hard decision.

It wasn't a hard decision.

I gave it back knowing that, you know, this is the right thing to do.

I don't want to have anything to do with it.

A little bit harder, I guess, in the sense that I knew that they were going to come after that medal.

And I knew that the U.S.

Olympic Committee was going to fight it.

And they would have had a better chance fighting it if I was there, you know, with them on that fight.

And so when I chose not to go on that fight...

That meant the other two relay members on there who probably wanted to fight it probably weren't going to have a very good chance at that point.

But it was not that hard for me.

It was disappointing.

I was very angry for a while.

Because, yeah, now I'm a four-time Olympic gold medalist, not a five-time Olympic gold medalist, through no fault of my own.

Michael Johnson grew up watching New York's second-best baseball team, the Mets, on ESPN with his dad.

Michael Johnson grew up watching New York's second-best baseball team, the Mets, on ESPN with his dad.

But now keeping up is a bit more complicated.