“I love this sport,” Michael Johnson told the BBC on Wednesday, November 27. He further added, “Grand Slam Track is track, that is what we’re doing. I am going to save what I think I can save; I think I can save track, I don’t think I can save track and field.” But then, the dreams of the legend were shattered!

Johnson launched his Grand Slam Track series with precisely that ambition. To reinvent how athletics were staged and consumed. But the project collapsed within a single season. The scheduled finale in Los Angeles never took place. Instead, the initiative unraveled into a tangle of broken promises, delayed prize money, and unpaid appearance fees, with more than $13 million still owed to athletes and vendors. And now, for the four-time Olympic champion, the failure has moved

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