This Brother Is On His Way To Making History!
INDIANAPOLIS — She was trying to stay focused on her 200-meter final, but Torri Edwards did not want to miss watching Tyson Gay run the same distance Sunday afternoon at the U.S. championships.
What she and 7,407 spectators saw means everyone will be watching Gay closely between now and the 2008 Olympics.
"That was phenomenal," Edwards said.
Despite a slight headwind, Gay won in 19.62 seconds, the second-fastest 200 in history. Only Michael Johnson's world record of 19.32 from the 1996 Olympics remains ahead.
"A lot of people think it's reachable, but it's extremely far to 19.32," Gay said after completing a 100-200 meters double at the meeting, the U.S. trials for August's world championships he.
"I was running scared. I wasn't thinking about any time. I was trying to get away from (world silver medalist) Wallace Spearmon as fast as I could."
Stardom now is a lot closer to Gay, 24, who describes himself as "just a country boy from Lexington, Kentucky." By the stopwatch, his performance at the national meet was the best 100-200 double in history.
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