When Tyson Gay set out for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, his goal was to bring home three medals. He brought home three gold medals. Dominating the 100m, 200m and 4x100m…
+ See More +When Tyson Gay set out for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, his goal was to bring home three medals. He brought home three gold medals. Dominating the 100m, 200m and 4x100m…
+ See More - See Less -When Tyson Gay set out for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, his goal was to bring home three medals. He brought home three gold medals.
Dominating the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relays, Gay joined Marita Koch, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene and Allyson Felix as the only athletes in history to win triple gold medals at a single World Championship competition.
The Adidas-sponsored American sprinter won the 100m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2004, achieving a time of 10.06. Gay was placed second on the world statistic map when he ran a 19.93-second 200m event in 2005. His performance has done nothing but improve over time. He shaved his 200m run to 19.68 seconds in 2006 and whittled down his 100m to a 9.84-second art. His unofficial halfway mark in the 200m race earned him the fastest world recording since Michael Johnson’s 1996 Olympic performance in Atlanta, Georgia.
By the end of 2006, IAAF ranked Gay second in the world in the 100m and 200m race, and all-time lists awarded him fourth for the 100m and 200m.
In 2008, Gay failed to reach the finals in the 100m at the Olympics in Beijing, China. Finishing a disappointing 5th, out of lane 9. Gay, who had been nursing a hamstring injury suffered in July 2008, at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon failed to run a several European races leading up the Olympics because of his hamstring injury.
“Usains a freaking beast man. as sad it may sound i dont think i can go 23.34 downhill on a bike. ;)
Usains a running phenomenon. I get giddy just thinking about what potential
other things Usain could accomplish.
Long Jump?? High Jump?? Shot Put?? Its absolute Crazy thinking, but never say never!”
“I can't claim to be positive that he's clean, but I have 3 reasons I think he is:
1. Age group phenom - 45.2 and 19.93 as a 16/17 year old. It makes sense that the fastest teenager ever ends up the fastest human ever.
2. He's a new style of runner. His combination of height and turnover has never been seen
3. I bet he has literally been tested 50 times in the last two years. What sort of drug makes him run 9.58 and evades detection time after time?”
“I can't claim to be positive that he's clean, but I have 3 reasons I think he is:
1. Age group phenom - 45.2 and 19.93 as a 16/17 year old. It makes sense that the fastest teenager ever ends up the fastest human ever.
2. He's a new style of runner. His combination of height and turnover has never been seen
3. I bet he has literally been tested 50 times in the last two years. What sort of drug makes him run 9.58 and evades detection time after time?”
“Hey Pepe Pearson, I really like your loser attitude but that's something Tyson doesn't have. After a bad Olympics Tyson was man enough to say that nothing had prevented him from running his best. If he had a losers attitude he would have blamed it on some other factor, but he didn't. He could have quit right there and then but he came back and set a personal record. He never whines or complains when things don't go his way and to me that's a true champion. A guy who can hold himself together even when he is losing. If nobody can beat Bolt we might as well just give up right? Bolt is fast that's for sure but I don't think he is unbeatable. True champions can make great comebacks, but that's something Bolt hasn't experienced yet and I'm waiting to see.”
“Ok, Tyson needs to quit.”
Usains a running phenomenon. I get giddy just thinking about what potential
other things Usain could accomplish.
Long Jump?? High Jump?? Shot Put?? Its absolute Crazy thinking, but never say never!
1. Age group phenom - 45.2 and 19.93 as a 16/17 year old. It makes sense that the fastest teenager ever ends up the fastest human ever.
2. He's a new style of runner. His combination of height and turnover has never been seen
3. I bet he has literally been tested 50 times in the last two years. What sort of drug makes him run 9.58 and evades detection time after time?
The three fastest men in the world, side by side. As below, Staggering!
Good run for Tyson Gay He has the American record for his won again!
Hope the critics will see that these men are all class act
wonder if Powell was fully fit how would he have challenge Gay... None the less I hope Carl Lewis shuts his mouth up!