Mo Greene Retires

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/brian_cazeneuve/02/11/maurice.greene.retirement/index.html

He was my favourite track athlete.

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His arrogance always bothered me quite a bit, especially the bickering between him and Michael Johnson.

I have a lot more respect for him now, seeing as he made it through his whole career without his name and steroids ever being mentioned in the same breath. I wish you could say that for more of today’s 100m runners.

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That’s why he was my favourite. The gym numbers tell the same story - I believe Mo squatted 500lb for a couple of reps, whilst Linford (juiced) was at 700lb for 3 or so and Jonson hit 4 times bodyweight.

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[quote]wsk wrote:
That’s why he was my favourite. The gym numbers tell the same story - I believe Mo squatted 500lb for a couple of reps, whilst Linford (juiced) was at 700lb for 3 or so and Jonson hit 4 times bodyweight.[/quote]

Where did you hear that Linford squatted 700 lb for 3? I find that number very difficult to believe unless they were partials.

Also Johnson never squatted 4xbodyweight.

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Linford was 220lb (off season) when he did that. Johnson’s squat may have been exaggerated - I did wonder - but it’s still WAY higher than Mo. There are links to some numbers on this thread.

http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=1471039&pageNo=0

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http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/features/coppola/pic-09.htm

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[quote]wsk wrote:
Linford was 220lb (off season) when he did that. Johnson’s squat may have been exaggerated - I did wonder - but it’s still WAY higher than Mo. There are links to some numbers on this thread.

http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=1471039&pageNo=0
[/quote]

I was tempted to bump that thread. I’m sorry I missed out on it, there are a lot of miconceptions about 40 times.