A split second can make the difference between winning and losing, fuelling the quest for excellence
Sprinter Tyson Gay failed more than one drug test this year, recording one of his positives at the US championships in June.
Usain Bolt has insisted he is "clean" and that fans could trust him despite recent failed drugs test by sprint rivals Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay.
Former double world sprint champion Tyson Gay has delivered a further body blow to his troubled sport by failing an out-of-competition dope test.
Jamaica’s Steve Mullings edged American Tyson Gay in a photo-finish in the men’s 100m at the New York Diamond League meeting on Saturday.
There is no doubt Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world, and the Jamaican looks set to prove that again in the 200metre final on Thursday.
Usain Bolt says it will take a bad day on the track for his rival, Tyson Gay, to get the better of him over 100m this year.
World-record holder Usain Bolt scorched into the men’s 100m final of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, but Tyson Gay crashed out.
The three fastest men in history all cruised through their Olympic 100m heats in Beijing on Friday.
Former record holder Asafa Powell says Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay will not run him down if he takes the lead in their anticipated Olympic 100m clash.
World champion Tyson Gay’s dream of an Olympics double ended in pain when he crashed out of the US 200m quarterfinals on Saturday.
World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100m of all-time to win the United States Olympic trials on Sunday, a wind-assisted 9,68 seconds.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt clocked a 100m world record of 9,72 seconds on Saturday to electrify the Reebok Grand Prix athletics meeting. The 21-year-old broke the previous record of 9,74 set by compatriot Asafa Powell in Rieti, Italy, on September 9 2007. Bolt finished ahead of 100m and 200m World Champion Tyson Gay of the United States (9,85) and American Darvis Patton (10,07).
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/ 4 February 2008
Tyson Gay has heard stories that some athletes may wear face masks at the Beijing Olympics, hoping to fend off fumes in one of the world’s most polluted capitals. ”I hear a lot of people saying, ‘You’ll have to wear a mask, you’ll have to do this or that,”’ the 100m and 200m world champion said on Monday.
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/ 26 November 2007
American double world sprint champion Tyson Gay and Ethiopian distance runner Meseret Defar were named the 2007 World Athletes of the Year on Sunday. Both athletes received a  000 cash award at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Gala.
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/ 10 September 2007
Asafa Powell cruised to victory in the 100m final of the Rieti IAAF Grand Prix in Italy on Sunday after breaking his own world record in his heat. The Jamaican set the record of 9,74 seconds and then was back on the track about 90 minutes later to run 9,78 in the final.
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/ 2 September 2007
Tyson Gay joined an exclusive club on Saturday in Osaka, Japan, by becoming only the third man ever to win three gold medals at a single world championships, overshadowing Meseret Defar’s 5 000m victory. Only fellow Americans Carl Lewis (1983 and 1987) and Maurice Greene (1999) have achieved the feat before.
Ten seconds should not be long enough to change the course of a lifetime, but for 100m athletes that is all it takes. Tyson Gay is now a world champion — a man of stature assured of his place in sporting history, with a reputation enhanced by his generous nature.
Tyson Gay romped to the 200m world title on Thursday, giving him a rare sprint double at the World Athletics Championships. He joined an exclusive club that includes fellow Americans Maurice Greene and the disgraced Justin Gatlin as the only men to win both the 100m and 200m crowns.