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When Tyson Gay sprted to three gold medals at the 2007 world champnships, looked like the Amerin would be athletics’ next superstar – but that dream unraveled as another man emerged to nquer all.

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HEARTBREAKG FISH FOR TYSON GAY

Tyson Gay had gone through so much to reach the London Olympics. Which ma his fish Sunday's 100-meter fal all the more heartbreakg. * tyson gay 2012 olympics *

Reported om 17 World Seri, 9 Olympics, 6 -- When the stadium announcer troduced Tyson Gay before the 100-meter fal, he scribed him as "the send-fastt man history. " That was both an enormo pliment and a paful remr that no matter how fast Gay has n and no matter how hard he has traed, hasn't been matters most, there is always someone 2008, Gay jured his hamstrg durg the 200 at the U.

And Gay aga lost an Olympic medal, this time the most paful way possible. Then you might beg to appreciate Gay's pa Sunday Gay ma his way through the mixed zone, where reporters are allowed to ask the athlet qutns, the sprter was tears. Tears rollg down his face, Gay walked had overe much to get to the le Sunday night.

There's more to e wh Tyson Gay. "Gay turns 30 two weeks, which means he'll be 34 by the time of the 2016 R Olympics. The entire US men’s sprt relay team was stripped of s silver medal om the 2012 London Olympics on Wednday as a rult of Tyson Gay’s dopg se, two officials wh knowledge of the cisn told the Associated officials spoke on ndn of anonymy bee the cisn has not yet been Internatnal Olympic Commtee notified the US Olympic Commtee by letter that the 4x100 relay team has been disqualified and all the medals whdrawn, the officials said.

TYSON GAY SE STS 2012 US OLYMPIC MEN'S SPRT RELAY TEAM S SILVER MEDAL

Anonymo officials nfirm that entire team will lose medals after Tyson Gay returned his own and accepted a one-year dopg spensn * tyson gay 2012 olympics *

The letter asks the USOC to llect the medals and return them to the returned his own medal last year after acceptg a one-year dopg spensn and the loss of rults gog back to July 2012, but the stat of the US send-place fish London and the medals of Gay’s relay teammat had remaed limbo until ternatnal l, an entire team n be disqualified and stripped of medals bee of dopg by one was a member of the Amerin team that fished send London behd a Jamain team anchored by Usa Bolt.

TYSON GAY'S 2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS TRAG

Dmmond was the ach of the US relay team London and placed Gay on the team. No Amerin has ever n 100 meters faster than Tyson Gay; he jt do not have the Olympic gold medal to show for . For a man who measur succs actns of a send, timg has long been an issue for Gay.

“For the moment, ” Bolt said of Gay at the time, “he is unbeatable. But timg is everythg: Gay won the 100 at the Uned Stat Olympic trials 2008, but then staed a hamstrg jury that led him out of the 200 for Beijg. Dpe trag feverishly to get healthy time for the Gam, Gay failed to make the fal the 100 and then was part of a botched exchange that led to disqualifitn for the Amerins the relay.

HUMAN TO HERO: TYSON GAY PRIMED FOR OLYMPIC CHALLENGE

Bolt ran right past him over the next year, breakg the world rerd Beijg and takg away Gay’s world tle 2009 Berl, when he lowered the rerd aga.

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