Tyson Gay at Monaco Bay (© Philippe Fitte)
MonacoBy his own admission, Tyson Gay had a big surprise this week as he drove into Monte Carlo ahead of tomorrow’s Herculis 2010 Samsung Diamond League meeting. Everywhere he looked, posters advertising the event, with himself as the poster boy.
“It was a complete shock to me,” he says. “At last year’s World Championships in Berlin there were posters of myself and Usain Bolt. But this was my first time, coming in on the taxi from the airport, seeing all the poster hanging up...it’s cool.”
But while Gay is the main attraction in what will be his final 200 metres of the season before concentrating on the shorter sprint, it emerged that his main rival Walter Dix, who beat him over the distance at the Eugene Diamond League meeting, would not be there to contend with him.
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