Athletics Shocker - Tyson Gay Beats Usain Bolt

Tyson Gay of the USA has recorded his first ever 100m win over World and triple Olympic Champion, Jamican Usain Bolt, in a Diamond League event at Stockholm.

In the sprint event held on Friday, Gay recorded a modest 9.84 seconds with Bolt trailing behind at 9.97. After reasonable starts by the two runners, Gay was ahead by a metre at the 20m mark, and stayed ahead for the rest of the race.

Bolt, recovering from a calf injury sustained in May, was clearly not in peak form or shape, in a race that saw a couple of false starts.

This was only the second professional defeat suffered by Bolt, who holds the 100m world record of 9.58 secs that he set in Augut, 2009, in Berlin.

But Tyson Gay admitted that Usain Bolt was not in peak fitness. Bolt recorded a faster time of 9.82, earlier this year, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The 1912 Olympic Stadium in Stockholm saw a sell-out crowd in anticipation of the showdown between the two fastest men, ever.

Bolt played down his defeat with modesty saying that he was not unbeatable.

The crowd was denied a rare spectacle of three 100m powerhouses on the same track, when Asafa Powell missed out on the race, after he pulled out of the event, on Wednesday, owing to a back injury.

At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Bolt became the first man after Carl Lewis in 1984 to win both the 100m and 200m sprint events.

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Will Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay Be Struck by a Bolt of Lightning?

As we look ahead to this summer's Beijing Olympics we take a closer look at the men's 100 meters and the three main contenders for the gold medal in Jamaica's former world record holder Asafa Powell at 9.74 seconds, the fastest man on the planet Jamaica's Usain Bolt at 9.72 seconds and the American Tyson Gay, the 2007 World championships triple gold medalist in the 100 meters, 200 meters and the 4x 100 meters. Bolt is also a major contender for the 200 meters, being the silver medalist at the world championships in 2007 in the 200 meters will saw him finishing behind Gay.

But who will make their country proud? Will Asafa Powell stamp his speed in history as the world's fastest man and 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the Men's 100 meters? Or will he like always get cold feet on the big occasion? Will the American and very consistent Tyson Gay take the finish line first? Will the narcissistic Usain Bolt; bolt his ego in history as the fastest man in the world and the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the Men's 100 meters and the icing on the cake bragging rights for the next four years? Only they can decide in this summer's Beijing Olympics as they race against time.

Bolt's recent form has proven itself once again. Almost breaking his countryman's record at a track meet in Jamaica's National Stadium a few weeks before when he ran a time of 9.76 seconds, he made it very clear his intentions for the Olympics. A few weeks later at a track meet in the United States of American he ran the fastest time in history 9.72 seconds in a race which incidentally featured Tyson Gay. The Bolt is here. The Jamaican Olympics trials should be very interesting. Who will take the gold?

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