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Johnson has a game plan for 110-meter hurdles
Allen Johnson has his sights set on winning a second gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles in Sydney. Four years ago Johnson stormed home in 12.96 seconds to win gold in Atlanta. Also a two-time world champion in the high hurdles, Johnson says the key is to get ahead early, believing that if he's ahead at the 50-meter mark, he'll be first across the line. "For me, I say the fifth hurdle is key because that's right in the middle of the race where I'm the fastest and I'm surging for say another two hurdles," Johnson says. "So if I'm ahead at the fifth, I feel that by the seventh hurdle I'm going to be even further ahead of you, and then after the seventh hurdle is when everybody in the race is going to start decelerating. It's just a matter of who's going to decelerate the most. So if I'm ahead I'm not going to decelerate so much that you're going to be able to overtake me." One of only six men to break the 13-second mark in the event, Johnson shares the American record of 12.92 seconds with Roger Kingdom -- just 1-100th of a second off of British hurdler Colin Jackson's world record of 12.91. Johnson won the U.S. Olympic trials in July in an impressive 12.97 seconds, sending out a warning to his competitors that he won't be giving up his Olympic title without a fight.
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