The speedster, who burst on to the world scene last spring, had faded out of the spotlight after choosing to remain in school rather than accept a professional contract.ĭix, who had run a personal-best of 9.93 last year, battled hamstring injuries during his senior season in Tallahassee, finished fourth in the 100 meters at the NCAA championships before winning the 200. Gay’s performance overshadowed Dix’s surprise surge to prominence here. … (But) the gold medal motivates me the most. Gay said he relished the record but had his eye trained on the Olympic gold at the end of this summer. Whether he can match the speed of Bolt and Jamaican Asafa Powell, who owned the previous world record of 9.74 seconds, remains to be seen. Though arguments will abound about what Gay’s time would have been under legal conditions (a track reference guide called the “Big Gold Book” claims it equates to a 9.86), Gay proved with his quarterfinal showing Saturday and speedy effort Sunday that his previous best of 9.84 seconds was only a starting point. “I though it was Tyson blowing by me,” he said. “When I saw the 9.68, I was just in awe,” said Patton, who occasionally works on his starts with Gay at the University of Texas-Arlington. Rarely do sprint world records come at events in which rounds play a part. And Sunday’s run came in the last of four 100 heats, a grueling undertaking for any sprinter. The 4.1 meters-per-second wind (2.0 is the maximum allowed) left intact the world record of Jamaican Usain Bolt, who ran a 9.72 this year, but it is worth noting that Gay ran a legal 9.77 Saturday in the quarterfinals - while slowing up at the finish. Olympic team with the victory, topping Florida State’s Walter Dix (9.80) and Darvis Patton (9.84), who also made the U.S. The significance of wind-aided times might be up for debate, but this much was certain: Gay, the double world sprint champion, secured his place on his first U.S. “I don’t care what kind of conditions you’re running under. “Never in my lifetime” have I seen that, said Harvey Glance, a sprint and relay coach for the U.S. Pushed to the line by a tailwind that prevented him from claiming the title of world’s fastest man, Gay nonetheless finished in an historic 9.68 seconds - the fastest any human has run over 100 meters in any conditions - which might have reinstated him as the man to beat in Beijing at the Summer Games. Olympic trials in track and field Sunday sent waves of shock through the crowd at Hayward Field, even if he got a bit of help from a gust. Tyson Gay’s dominance of the 100-meter final at the U.S. The wind was blowing hard, sure, but the performance was even stronger.
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