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Top Five

Texas breeds some of the best athletes in the country. Here, we present some of the most dominant, adept, skilled, and influential competitors to come out of the Lone Star State.

Michael Johnson

TRACK & FIELD

Born September 13, 1967, in Dallas

Gold spikes will court attention. Wearing gold spikes while becoming the first man to win both the 200-and 400-meter sprints in the same Olympics, as Michael Johnson did in Atlanta in 1996, will court

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