在奥运会赛场上，跑鞋与高科技的完美结合远远超过了其他运动服装，它已经成为更新换代最快的运动装备了。2000年悉尼奥运会上，美国飞人迈克尔·约翰逊穿着由耐克公司科研人员耗时3年制成的“金缕鞋”出现在400米跑道上，一露面便吸引了全场目光。这双仅有116克的跑鞋也许是世界上最昂贵的跑鞋，鞋面全部由24K纯金制成的颗粒包裹，在闪光灯下金光灿灿，富贵无比。凭借超凡实力和“金缕鞋”的完美“助攻”，约翰逊再次包揽400米金牌，并获得了4X400米冠军。

On August 1, 1996, the night United States track star Michael Johnson made Olympic history, it wasn't just what he did that was amazing, it was how fast he did it.

The Second Coming of Jesse Owens

But first Johnson's record needs some background. Already labeled the second coming of Jesse Owens, Johnson was in position to win medals in the 200-meter race and the 4x400 relay at the Barcelona Games in 1992. And while he won a gold medal for his relay performance, a bout of food poisoning kept him out of the 200m finals. He vowed that he'd be back.

At the centennial Atlanta Games, Johnson logged a performance that only the Ancient Greeks could appreciate. On Day 11, Johnson put on a burst and breezed in the 400-meter race, winning in an Olympic-record 43.49 seconds, then tossed his gold shoes into the crowd.

The 400 race left Johnson sore. The following morning he decided he would not run the relay, focusing instead on the 200.

Those Golden Shoes

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Johnson appeared on the track with golden shoes. The spikes include of 24-karat gold in the shoe's upper. The Nike design team of Tobie Hatfied and Kevin Hoffer also made adjustments to the shoe's support and spike plate.

Johnson put on an astounding burst of speed and won the 200 meters in a jaw-dropping, world-record time of 19.32 seconds. He became the first man to win the 200 and 400 in the same Olympics and took 0.34 seconds off his own 200 world record, which he set two months earlier on the same track at the Olympic trials.

"It still hasn't quite sunk in," Johnson told USA Today's Dick Patrick. "When I saw 19.32 seconds on the clock, I couldn't believe it. I felt like I was one of the 85,000 fans in the stadium. I'm a track fan. I would like to have watched that myself."


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