News about Michael Johnson

One of the greatest fights in the history of British MMA went down at PFL Europe on Saturday night. On the main card of PFL Europe 3 Lewis McGrillen and Dean Garnett faced off in a bantamweight clash at the OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow. Both fighters have earned a reputation as some of the most promising 135 lbs prospects on the British scene but few could have predicted just how electrifying their clash would be when they met inside the cage.

Nadia Fairfax is preparing to say goodbye to her stunning Sydney terrace house. The socialite, 34, purchased the stunning two storey Paddington home named Cawdor, in 2020 with husband Michael Wayne for $4.3million. Previously owned by abstract painter Michael Johnson and his wife Margot, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home was constructed in 1880.

There has been a major update in the suspicious Luna Park ghost train fire that killed six boys and one man over four decades ago in June 1979.

JEFF POWELL: The rather un- British orgy of self-congratulation has abated. The adoration by the luvvies, bless 'em, has subsided. Our civil servants have torn themselves away from the telly to resume working from home for at least an hour and a half a day. It is time to count the cost. Such as £17.55million for each beribboned gold, if you divide the £245.8m Government and lottery funding for Team GB at the Paris Olympics by the 14 medals struck in the only metal which matters in the table of national glory at the Games. Even if you finagle the figures to include the silvers and bronzes which make up the rest of the British haul of 65 medals, it comes in at £3.78m a pop. But in reality that disguises the dark depths of expensive failure in the City of Light.

The Princess of Wales delighted royal fans yesterday evening as she made a surprise congratulatory message to Team GB alongside the Prince of Wales. Makeup artist Joy Adenuga explained that the royal (pictured), 42, conveyed a 'relaxed, approachable demeanor' through her 'sun-kissed highlights' and 'understated yet polished' makeup look.

Standing by Kate's side, the Prince of Wales, 42, sported an unusually rugged look, with an unshaven appearance as he praised the British Olympians ahead of the end of the Paris Olympics. The Princess, who is continuing to undergo cancer treatment, was positively glowing in her latest appearance in a special video shot for Team GB featuring a host of well-known personalities. But for some royal fans, they couldn't take their eyes off of William and his beard, with one person writing on X: 'Prince William with his stubble is hot.' It is not the first time the Prince has dabbled in facial hair; in 2008 he sent hearts a-flutter by growing a beard for the festive season, claiming that strangers failed to recognise him.

BBC presenter Gabby Logan has hit back after she was criticised for dropping an expletive phrase twice in quick succession live on air. The 51-year-old branded the botched baton handover in the United States' disastrous 4x100m race a 'c**k up' on Friday while discussing the event with experts Jessica Ennis-Hill and Michael Johnson. Logan then used the phrase - which is termed as rude by the Cambridge dictionary - again - when she tried to gain Johnson's thoughts on the race. The US were the hot favourites to take home the gold but the bungled baton handover saw the team rapidly drop down the order before eventually being disqualified.

In an interview after the race on Wednesday night, Milton showed how proud he was of Quincy along with friends and family hoping that the sprinter heard their barks from Kansas City, MO. Repping a Royals baseball cap, Milton told Fox 4NewsKC: 'Oh man, this is awesome man! This is 18 years in the making dog, you don't understand. [Mom] Miss Iecia and Quincy Hall have been through all the making man.'

DAVID COVERDALE AT THE STADE DE FRANCE: No sooner had Noah Lyles landed his first Olympic gold medal, than he was announcing his next big goal. 'I want my own sneaker,' said the new 100 metres champion. 'Even Michael Johnson didn't have his own sneaker.' One man who did, though, was Usain Bolt - and that is who Lyles is coming closer to emulating with every race he runs and wins. Lyles is the best thing to happen to athletics since Bolt exited the stage in 2017. And now the world champion is also the Olympic champion, he can go on to transcend track and field just like the Jamaican legend.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson has questioned Team USA's decision to make Coco Gauff a flagbearer. The tennis star joined LeBron James at the head of Team USA's opening ceremony boat to hold the flag as they made their way along the Seine on Friday night. Gauff is the reigning US Open champion and a contender to win the women's tennis gold medal in Paris. 

A British retiree on the other side of the world found there was no escaping the beady eye of the taxman, which chased him for years for tax returns he never had to file. Despite apologising four times, the problem continued - until he contacted This is Money.

Alexi Saenz, 29, left, also known as 'Blasty' and 'Big Homie,' pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering charges for the string of murders in 2016. Among his victims were Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, pictured in police flyers right- two lifelong friends whose murders raised the nation's awareness of a growing gang problem in the United States.

Lutalo Muhammad has revealed the secret tactic athletes should be using to succeed at the Olympic Games this summer and credits Michael Johnson for giving him the idea. Muhammad won a silver medal in taekwondo at Rio 2016 and a bronze medal at London 2012, while also becoming a two-time World Grand Prix, Commonwealth and European Champion before retiring.

DAVID COVERDALE: World champion Josh Kerr has become the first British star to sign up to Michael Johnson's new Grand Slam Track league. The big-money series starts next April in Los Angeles, with three other meets to take place next year at different venues around the world. Every athlete will compete in two races at each Slam and will win $100,000 (£79,000) if they top their category.

DAVID COVERDALE: The quadruple Olympic champion revealed in February that he was set to launch a new breakaway track league, which could come to rival World Athletics' existing Diamond League. The inaugural Slam will be held next April and there will be two events in America - one in Los Angeles and another city - and another two outside of the US, with London a possible location.

England fans who sing offensive songs about World War Two will be slapped with cash fines at Euro 2024. Songs including 'Ten German Bombers', have been branded offensive to locals for stirring up memories of the war. British police and the Foreign Office have been told that those found engaging in WW2 jibes will be marched over to ATMs and made to hand over a fine by local authorities.

Josh Kerr has sluggishly dismissed the reward pots on offer at major athletics tournaments, and has supported Michael Johnson's plans for a big-money breakaway league. Top athletes are not being paid what they are worth, according to the Scot, who claims it was 'crazy' that he only received $31,500 for winning the 3,000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow last weekend. His remarks came just days after USA legend Johnson revealed that he was going to debut a new track series next year, promising to shake-up athletics with the'most investment' the sport has ever seen.

In an attempt to'revolutionize' the game, Michael Johnson has revealed plans to create a breakaway athletics league. The four-time Olympic gold medalist has collaborated with Winners Alliance, a multinational sports marketing company, to produce a plan that may be able to compete in the new Diamond League of World Athletics. Johnson is currently in negotiations with new investors, sponsors, and media partners with the intention of launching the new big-money competition next year.

When Ms Newman, 40, was dead, Robert Halliwell, 48, and Melanie Bullen, 53, were taking opioids with Kerry Newman. On July 17 this year, they bundled'd her into Halliwell's vehicle, pushed half a mile away, and pulled her body to an alleyway in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. On New Barn Lane, between Ashfield Valley Primary School and Sandbrook Retail Park, she was discovered face down, partially clothed. Ms Newman's cause of death was reported to be aspiration pneumonia as a result of drug exposure, following a post mortem investigation. Her death is no longer being treated as suspicious by police.

Residents of Lyminge, Kent, have been left reeling after a planned development that was not scheduled in 2022 has doubled in size, according to residents, because it could crowd public services. Folkestone and Hythe District Council had initially approved 28 large homes in 2022, but the number was then doubled to 45 affordable homes. The tiny village, which includes two shops, a coffee shop, and a local family run pub, was divided by the proposals, which were approved by the local authority on October 3 in Kent hills.

On March 20, 2021, Steve Rucker refused to stop for an outstanding warrant for a suspected protective order misdeed, which was later dropped, leading to a chase through Lynchburg. He was then run over after falling off the horse and suffering with hemorrhage, a pulmonary vascular fracture, multiple rib fractures, a concussion, and other injuries. In April, Rucker filed a federal lawsuit against Lynchburg police officers Zachary Miller and Michael Johnson.

Many people are stuck on stale planes on the runway, including holidaymakers, people attending hen dos, and a family returning from Disneyland, with one person being told that there is at least a seven-hour delay. After NATS, the national air traffic controllers based in Swanwick, Hampshire, said their device had failed, Gabby Logan, one of those trapped on a plane on the runway at Budapest airport. Mrs Logan was back home in Hungary after three weeks as she was presenting the World Athletic Championships for the BBC alongside Jessica Ennis-Hill, Denise Lewis, and Michael Johnson. Mrs Logan, a woman who used to be known as Twitter, told her 450,000 followers how she was agonisingly close to'hugging her family' once more.

Even Noah Lyles is afraid of the idea. 'This is getting scary,' admits the American. There have been a few times where me and my coach have looked at each other and been like, 'This is getting scary.' The petrifying prospect? Many expected that he would smash Usain Bolt's 200 meters world record in one day, which many believed could never be defeated. Lyles' personal record is the 19.31 seconds he set in defending his world championship in Eugene last year, which ties Michael Johnson's 1996 US record and places him behind Bolt and Yohan Blake on the all-time list.

THE INSIDE TRACK BY HENRY CLARK: Wayde van Niekerk, the last time he graced the London Stadium track, looked to have the world at his feet. Back in 2017, the South African stormed home to win the Olympic 400 meters gold in Rio, just a year after putting on a much more convincing show to win Olympic 400m gold, smashing the world record held by Michael Johnson. Van Niekerk outlined his aspiration to go where no man had gone before by running a sub-43 seconds 400 meters. He was dissatisfied with adding more medals to his haul.