Powell dominates Shanghai China as Gay fades

Wallace Spearmon beat Tyson Gay in the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix this Friday.

World 100m and 200m champion Gay blasted out of the blocks but at 80m his US teammate Spearmon went ahead beat him to the line in 9.96 seconds.

Gay clocked 10.02 with Jamaica's Michael Frater third.

"I'm very excited about this performance. Last year I ran a personal best here and this year I've done the same," said the winner ...

Gay admitted he had been resting since the world championships in Osaka and there was never a true race in him really; let alone one against dominant Asafa Powell.

"Wallace Spearmon ran a great race. I was just a little bit rusty," accoring to Gay.

"I haven't done a lot of training, I've been resting and relaxing." Trips to London for his sponsors Adidas and the pressure of the World crown sees the Osaka win appear more and more like a gift from a mistake by Powell than a true triumph for Gay. He closes out the season World champion but not world #1.

That goes to Asafa Powell set a new 100m world record of 9.74sec in Italy earlier this month.

Powell in a surprise twist claimed he was "not allowed" to face Gay at Shanghai in a rematch of their world championship final : www.100m.com and www.200m.com doubted the two would race after Osaka and its looking like things will run out at that now.

Powell pulled out the stops to wow the Chinese crowd and stormed the 200m in 20 seconds close to his personal best. America's Rodney Martin was second Jamaica's Christopher Williams third.

Will Gay run 200m to duck Powell over 100m ?

he is planning to compete

It remains to be seen when, if at all, the double world champion puts his reputation on the line and races Powell the fastest man on earth. If past records are an indication of anything he may not do that in the last three big meetings in Asia. Fresh off his medal haul in Osaka he will be unlikely to risk ending the season in second place on the track as well as in the record book unless the rewards are simply too rich to pass up. Only his management team know and at the moment its in the "planning" stage.

Gay may elect do a relay if he is still tired.

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Report: Gay to run in Yokohama
The Yomiuri Shimbun

Newly crowned world sprint champion Tyson Gay will return to Japan later this month to run in the Super Meet in Yokohama, his management company was quoted as saying in a Reuters report on Wednesday.

In commenting on Gay's withdrawal from the Golden League meet in Brussels on Friday--which ended hopes of a possible rematch with rival Asafa Powell--a spokeswoman for Global Sports Management said Gay would be competing in three meets in Asia.

"Tyson is taking a break as he recovers from the world championships and will not run in Brussels," Barbara Huebner of Global Sports was quoted as saying. "But he is planning to compete in meets at Shanghai, China; Yokohama, Japan and Daegu, South Korea."