Michael Johnson he walks upright through the inner ring of the National Athletics Center in Budapest, what a bearing, what a figure. It gives the impression that at any moment he will go down to the track and run the 200 meters in less than 20 seconds. As a BBC commentator, in fact, he could participate in the race for journalists, a festive 800 that took place this Tuesday, but he flatly refuses. “It’s not for me, it’s not for me, really,” he comments to EL MUNDO while he laughs at the occurrence. Just five years ago, in August 2018, the man who was the fastest man on the planet suffered a transient ischemic attack, also known as a mini-stroke, and had to learn to walk again, little by little, very little by little, very very little by little. Today he is fully recovered and, in addition to talking about athletics, he spends his time raising awareness about stroke, the need to identify it fast and act even faster.
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