Gay unlikely to run 200m at US trials
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June 10, 2011, Friday
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FORMER world champion Tyson Gay said he was unlikely to run the 200 meters at this month's United States trials, effectively ending his chances of facing world record holder Usain Bolt over the distance at this year's world championships in South Korea.
Although the American said he was still planning to run the 100 meters at the US trials and hoped to face Bolt at the worlds, he said he was resigned to skipping the 200 because of fitness concerns.
"It's about 90 percent (that I will miss the 200)," he said on Wednesday.
"I have honestly missed so much training this year because of my hip and everything, it is very difficult to say when I will run a 200."
The world silver medalist, who ran the year's fastest 100 when he clocked 9.79 seconds in a preliminary race in Florida last weekend, will face Jamaican training partner Steve Mullings at the New York Grand Prix tomorrow. Mullings is the season's second-fastest sprinter, having run 9.80.
"I know how much training I have been missing," Gay said. "Some people think I may be playing games, but I don't play games. I run with so much heart, I overcome pain."
The injuries have not kept him from training for the 100, Gay said, "but in the 200 you have to have fitness."
Gay won the 100 and 200 at the 2007 worlds in Japan before Bolt completed the coveted sprint double at Berlin two years ago, breaking his own world records in both events.
Gay finished second behind Bolt in the 100 but pulled out of the 200. Last year, Gay beat Bolt over 100 in their only head-to-head clash.
Although the American said he was still planning to run the 100 meters at the US trials and hoped to face Bolt at the worlds, he said he was resigned to skipping the 200 because of fitness concerns.
"It's about 90 percent (that I will miss the 200)," he said on Wednesday.
"I have honestly missed so much training this year because of my hip and everything, it is very difficult to say when I will run a 200."
The world silver medalist, who ran the year's fastest 100 when he clocked 9.79 seconds in a preliminary race in Florida last weekend, will face Jamaican training partner Steve Mullings at the New York Grand Prix tomorrow. Mullings is the season's second-fastest sprinter, having run 9.80.
"I know how much training I have been missing," Gay said. "Some people think I may be playing games, but I don't play games. I run with so much heart, I overcome pain."
The injuries have not kept him from training for the 100, Gay said, "but in the 200 you have to have fitness."
Gay won the 100 and 200 at the 2007 worlds in Japan before Bolt completed the coveted sprint double at Berlin two years ago, breaking his own world records in both events.
Gay finished second behind Bolt in the 100 but pulled out of the 200. Last year, Gay beat Bolt over 100 in their only head-to-head clash.
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