Tyson Gay sprints to USA TODAY weekly award

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These US reporters are not for real!!! Slight tailwind?



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EnlargeBy Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty ImagesTyson Gay waves to the crowd after running a 9.75-second 100 meters at the U.S. national championships last weekend.


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By Dan Friedell, USA TODAY
With the best American track and field athletes in one place last weekend for the national championships, there was a good shot that some impressive performances would emerge from the meet. While Allyson Felix and Dwight Phillips put in solid efforts, Tyson Gay impressed the crowd in Eugene, Ore. and positioned himself again as a rival to Jamaica's Usain Bolt by clocking 9.75 seconds in the 100 meters.
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Gay's time was the seventh-fastest ever in the distance (he did have a slight tailwind) and the best in the world this year. For his effort, Gay, the 2007 world champion in the 100 and 200 meters, wins this week USA TODAY Olympic Athlete of the Week award. Gay now has the best times in the world this year in both distances.
Felix, who is going for her third world title in the 200, ran the full meet and earned her way onto the world team despite having an automatic spot due to her 2007 championship. She ran the 200 in 22.02 seconds (wind-aided) to post the fastest time in the world this season.
Phillips, who was the 2004 gold medalist in Athens but failed to make the Beijing team last year, jumped 28 feet, 1 1/2 inches for the national championship, giving him four of the top six jumps in the world this year. He also won the men's Visa Championship series, netting a $25,000 bonus.

[Willi]

Dem aggo get shock inna Berlina. LoL

[Mosiah]

What an idiot article!

Tyson Gay waves to the crowd after running a 9.75-second 100 meters at the U.S. national championships last weekend.

Tyson Gay impressed the crowd in Eugene, Ore. and positioned himself again as a rival to Jamaica's Usain Bolt by clocking 9.75 seconds in the 100 meters.

Gay now has the best times in the world this year in both distances.

Felix ran the 200 in 22.02 seconds (wind-aided) to post the fastest time in the world this season.

Gay's time was the seventh-fastest ever in the distance (he did have a slight tailwind) and the best in the world this year.

Doesn't the writer realise that the race does not matter once it is wind-aided? Usain ran 9.77s in Ostrava two weeks ago in a +2.1 wind and you never heard us talking about it being the fastest time in the world this year. Tyson's 9.75 was in a +3.4 wind, Category 4 in T&F terms!

Wait till Bolt deal wid him case later this year. You heard it from me first - it won't even be close!

[Muadib]

Gay time is 9.9 adjusted for wind and altitude.. not bad.

LOL !

[Willi]

Usain was 9.85s converted. Much better.