No Australian athlete has run faster than Patrick Johnson. He was the fastest man in the world in 2003 when he became the first person not of African descent to run under the magical 10-second mark.
For 10 years he was an Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) scholarship athlete, but to this day nobody has sat down with the two-time Olympian to ask how he did it, operating within a system that was culturally unsafe, from where he learnt to pick and choose what was appropriate to draw the best out of himself.
