Britain’s fastest man, Zharnel Hughes, has revealed that he is still waiting on prize money from the troubled Grand Slam Track league. The new athletics competition, which Michael Johnson fronted, was ...
Michael Johnson has spoken out after cancelling the Los Angeles leg of his new Grand Slam Track competition, describing the drastic move as a “business decision” to preserve the future of the league.
Olympian Michael Johnson has a track and field league’s future is uncertain. As AFROTECH previously reported, in 2024, Johnson announced plans for a track and field platform to help athletes ...
Grand Slam Track founder Michael Johnson has spoken out after failing to pay athletes and said the event would not go ahead in 2026 unless a solution was found. The league, which is in its inaugural ...
According to Michael Johnson, the four-time Olympic gold medallist and eight-time world champion, Grand Slam Track (GST) was going to revolutionize his sport and see athletes treated as “true ...
Michael Johnson’s new Grand Slam Track league could be in trouble. Johnson, a Dallas native, Baylor alum and four-time Olympic gold medalist, attempted to shake up the track world with the ...
In August, Michael Johnson addressed the uncertain future of his ambitious Grand Slam Track project in an episode of the Ready Set Go podcast. With funding hurdles and sustainability questions looming ...
TOKYO — It was small news that dropped during a busy sports week in June. A much-hyped track meet in Los Angeles fronted by one of the sport’s greats, Michael Johnson, was being canceled. It marked ...
Grand Slam Track (GST) has missed payments to its athletes due to not receiving funding which had been committed to the competition, founder and four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson said on ...
Grand Slam Track has denied founder Michael Johnson has taken payments of $2m from the series while its athletes remain unpaid. The series, which had been billed as a revolutionary addition to the ...
Track legend Michael Johnson confirmed that Grand Slam Track is "struggling with our ability to compensate" its athletes amid uncertainty over the league's future. "We were devastated when we learned ...