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Showdown in Zagreb; Gay vs Carter
By Anthony Foster,
trackalerts.com
Monday, 30 August 2010
Tyson Gay is expecting "one of the fastest races" of the year, when he comes up against Nesta Carter of Jamaica, at this year's IAAF World Challenge Meeting, on Wednesday (Sept. 1), in Zagreb, Croatia.
Both sprinters presently share the title of 'world's fastest man of the season' so far this year.
American Tyson Gay first ran 9.78 seconds in London on Aug. 13, and Nesta Carter subsequently responded, with a 9.78 of his own, at the Rieti Grand Prix in Italy on Sunday.
Carter, a member of Jamaica's world record breaking, Beijing Olympic, 4x100m relay team (37.10), said he would have to be at his best to beat Tyson Gay.
"Once he's in form, you have to come very good to beat him," said Carter. "Last Friday (Aug 27) in Brussels, was his day. His day because I didn't run my race the way it was supposed to be run."
In that meeting, Carter ran a then personal best of 9.85, but lost to Gay, who in that race ran 9.79. Carter who had a very good start and was leading by a meter at one stage of that race, tied up and watched as Gay blew past him in the last 20 meters.
"Tyson is a fast finisher, so you have to be like gone or keep going when you get out there," added Carter. "He is a very, very good athlete. He is a 9.6 athlete, and I consider myself a 9.7 athlete at the moment. In London, I was then at 9.8, so beating him then would have been kind of difficult."
The 100m line-up also includes former world silver medalist Michael Frater from Jamaica, who set a season's best of 9.98 in Rieti, Michael Rodgers from the USA, sixth in Rieti in 10.00 and Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, who clocked 10.00 for seventh in that deep race.
Two-time world champion Blanka Vlasic, the other athlete who plans to put on a show, cleared 2.08m to top last year's meeting and is planning to break the world record here on her home-soil.
Showdown in Zagreb; Gay vs Carter
By Anthony Foster,
trackalerts.com
Monday, 30 August 2010
Tyson Gay is expecting "one of the fastest races" of the year, when he comes up against Nesta Carter of Jamaica, at this year's IAAF World Challenge Meeting, on Wednesday (Sept. 1), in Zagreb, Croatia.
Both sprinters presently share the title of 'world's fastest man of the season' so far this year.
American Tyson Gay first ran 9.78 seconds in London on Aug. 13, and Nesta Carter subsequently responded, with a 9.78 of his own, at the Rieti Grand Prix in Italy on Sunday.
Carter, a member of Jamaica's world record breaking, Beijing Olympic, 4x100m relay team (37.10), said he would have to be at his best to beat Tyson Gay.
"Once he's in form, you have to come very good to beat him," said Carter. "Last Friday (Aug 27) in Brussels, was his day. His day because I didn't run my race the way it was supposed to be run."
In that meeting, Carter ran a then personal best of 9.85, but lost to Gay, who in that race ran 9.79. Carter who had a very good start and was leading by a meter at one stage of that race, tied up and watched as Gay blew past him in the last 20 meters.
"Tyson is a fast finisher, so you have to be like gone or keep going when you get out there," added Carter. "He is a very, very good athlete. He is a 9.6 athlete, and I consider myself a 9.7 athlete at the moment. In London, I was then at 9.8, so beating him then would have been kind of difficult."
The 100m line-up also includes former world silver medalist Michael Frater from Jamaica, who set a season's best of 9.98 in Rieti, Michael Rodgers from the USA, sixth in Rieti in 10.00 and Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, who clocked 10.00 for seventh in that deep race.
Two-time world champion Blanka Vlasic, the other athlete who plans to put on a show, cleared 2.08m to top last year's meeting and is planning to break the world record here on her home-soil.
