{"id":1250,"date":"2012-06-05T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2012-06-05T17:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:27:58","slug":"tyson-gay-to-debut-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Gay to Debut in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tyson<\/a>I know that the next meet up is the Oslo leg of the Diamond League and not New York, but the big news<\/a> heading into the last two \u201cbig\u201d meets before the Olympic Trials is that Tyson Gay will run before the Trials and he will do so this weekend in New York. Huge news when you consider that he is a) the American Record holder in the 100 meters; b) the second fastest man ever in the event; c) the last man to beat Usain Bolt in either the 100 or 200 meters.<\/p>\n

So, knowing that he is ready to compete is big news \u2013 trust me I\u2019ve gotten tons of emails and texts regarding this announcement. The standard question being what do I think? Well I think it\u2019s good news, of course. We always want to have our best athletes available for the Olympics and Tyson is one of our best sprinters. Do I expect to see him at 100%, probably not \u2013 that\u2019s a lot to expect from any athlete in their debut let alone one that had surgery last year and spent much of the off season rehabbing.<\/p>\n

So those who look to gauge him by his best performances should expect no more from his debut than they did from Walter Dix, Yohan Blake or Usain Bolt \u2013 solid, but not their championship best.Which is why I\u2019m glad to see him get at least one competition in before the Trials \u2013 to knock off the rust. He\u2019ll be running in the \u201cB\u201d race, which seems to bother some people \u2013 as everyone wants to know why he isn\u2019t taking on Yohan Blake. But then Bolt didn\u2019t open up against Blake – as a matter of fact they haven\u2019t competed against each other since 2010 \u2013 or any other headliner. So I\u2019m not holding the \u201cB\u201d race against Tyson, because outside of Gatlin & Powell opening up against each other, all the other \u201ctop dogs\u201d opened against moderate competition \u2013 and then Bolt\u2019s follow up was his slowest ever final. My point is it\u2019s early and his first race of the season so I\u2019m not sure I want to read too much into it \u2013 unless of course it\u2019s blazing. But given the circumstances the odds of that are not extremely high. Frankly I\u2019m just glad to see he\u2019s getting back on the track as originally word was he wasn\u2019t going to run until Eugene!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also good to see him debut at \u201chome\u201d as this will only enhance the meet for the fans \u2013 and I\u2019m sure it will help with the television coverage! Final start lists are not up yet, but based on current seasons bests, and knowing that Tyson will be in the \u201cB\u201d race, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see him line up against perhaps Gerald Phiri, Ramone McKenzie, Kemar Cole, and Ahmad Rashad \u2013 all sprinters capable of running in the10.0x\/10.1x range \u2013 a nice \u201ctest\u201d for a a sprinter who hasn\u2019t competed since around this time last year. And with about three weeks to go to the Trials, it provides ample time to examine where he is and make necessary adjustments \u2013 which is what a lot of folk will be doing after the close of Oslo and New York. <\/p>\n

So,that\u2019s where I am on the Tyson Gay Debut. The rest of the week will be action packed \u2013 it should be a lot of fun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that the next meet up is the Oslo leg of the Diamond League and not New York, but the big news heading into the last two \u201cbig\u201d meets before the Olympic Trials is that Tyson Gay will run before the Trials and he will do so this weekend in New York. Huge news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-ka","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}