Athletics: Fall costs Gay 200m place

Gay was tipped to be Usain Bolt's main rival for 200m gold World champion Tyson Gay fell in the US 200m trials to end his hopes of winning an Olympic sprint double in Beijing. Gay, who won gold in the 100m and 200m in Japan last year, grabbed at his hamstring after he tripped and had to be helped from the track. The American policy of only picking the three fastest athletes in the trials means Gay is out of the 200m squad. Gay, 25, has already qualified for the 100m, recently running a wind-assisted 9.68 seconds to win the US trials. That time was the fastest ever recorded over 100m, though the 4.1m/sec tailwind made the run illegal for the purposes of official records. Gay also ran a legal time of 9.77 seconds in the trials, the fourth fastest of all time and only bettered by world record holder Usain Bolt and his Jamaican... [read full story]