Tyson GAY Bgraphy, Olympic Medals, Rerds and Age

Contents:

• TYSON GAY
• HUMAN TO HERO: TYSON GAY PRIMED FOR OLYMPIC CHALLENGE
• USA BOLT: WHEN TYSON GAY RAN FASTER THAN FORMER 100M WORLD RERD 2008

TYSON GAY

Tyson Gay of the Universy of Arkansas, Tianna Madison of the Universy of Tennsee, and a bunch of men's 4x400 relay gave a hotfoot to the NCAA hampnships on the send of four days – Thursday 9 June. Gay hurtled through the turn his semi-fal of the 200 metr and kept most of his three metre lead until he crossed the fish le a PB 19. The ag are relevant: Gay is 22, Spearmon is 20, Carter and Dix 19.

HUMAN TO HERO: TYSON GAY PRIMED FOR OLYMPIC CHALLENGE

Gay has a special motivatn for burng the 200. The d of excement the New Jersey school was rced to silence as the image of Tyson Gay crouched the startg blocks me up on the projectn screen. Standg unr the screen and watchg the vio om his US rerd race 2009, Gay uldn’t help but se at the reactn the vio eliced om the school children last week.

“It remd me that I n be great, ” Gay said afterwards. The overridg theme of Gay’s msage to the youngsters was to never give up on a dream. After wng gold the 100m, the 200m and the 4x100m relay at the 2007 World Champnships Osaka, Gay fostered dreams of challengg the world rerd the 100m, and fdg glory as an Olympic medallist; but his body has sce failed him on an almost-yearly basis.

Olympic Trials, Gay suffered a hamstrg jury the first round of the 200m and never fully revered. In 2009, Gay peted wh gro juri but still wound up wng silver the 100m at the IAAF World Champnships Berl before settg that US rerd at the Shanghai Super Grand Prix. “There were a lot of prsg moments and tim seeg my trag partners tra and pete while I uld only watch them, ” reflected Gay.

USA BOLT: WHEN TYSON GAY RAN FASTER THAN FORMER 100M WORLD RERD 2008

00 100m the B race at the adidas Grand Prix New York, unr his belt before the 2012 US Olympic Trials, Gay fied the odds and ma the US team after fishg send the 100m 9.

“My biggt emotn at the Trials was relief, ” said Gay. Even though he was far om 100 per cent, and perhaps sensg his own sprtg mortaly, Gay said he put immense prsure on himself to w a medal at the London 2012 Olympic Gam.

Gay got a great start out of the blocks the 100m fal, somethg that has been an Achill heel throughout his reer, but the lack of trag he had ught up wh him the latter stag of the race when he didn’t have the endurance to rry that great start through the le. “It was very cshg, ” mented Gay. Wh Bolt’s emergence 2008, Gay admted to phg himself to the extreme, at tim wh no regard for his own well-beg, to get to that next level.

Another change Gay has ma this year has been to his diet. “In November, I had my blood work done and spoke to my nutrnist and learned that I was predisposed to diabet, ” said Gay.

Gay admted that his eatg habs sce 2004 had been far om healthy. Gay said he already feels better and has seen posive chang his revery om workouts. News08 Jul 2011Tyson Gay has arthrospic surgery on hip and is out of petn until 2012Tyson Gay en route to his big w over Usa Bolt the Stockholm 100m (© De Text&Bild)Tyson Gay, the 2007 World 100m and 200m champn, who due to jury had to pull out of the send round of the 100 metr at the recent USATF is out for the rt of the season after unrgog arthrospic, the reigng World 100m bronze medallist, and the send fastt 100m (9.

The Amerin rerd holr the 100m, Gay ma a dramatic return om jury 2012. Gay returned to the track 2012 at the adidas Grand Prix New York one year after unrgog hip surgery to n 10. Durg the 2010 season, Gay hand world and Olympic champn and world rerd holr Usa Bolt his first 100m loss two years.

Gay first tablished the Amerin rerd 2008 wh a time of 9. Due to a hamstrg jury at the 2008 Olympic Trials, Gay uld only n heats of 100m at the Olympic Gam and failed to make the fals.