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T&FN Report From adidas Running Camp:
Gay's Title Defense Season Slightly Injury-Delayed
Double sprint world champion Tyson Gay is healthy and eager to defend his 100 and 200 crowns this summer in Berlin, but has revealed his training over the fall and winter was delayed by a knee injury.
Gay demonstrated start technique (see video-frame picture sequence below) for journalists at a "running camp" organized by his shoe sponsor, adidas, on Wednesday. His block starts alongside fellow world champion Jeremy Wariner, were "about 60%" efforts according to Gay, who accomplished them free of pain.
"I'm 6 weeks into my preparation," Gay said. "I'm not even in spikes yet [in his 5-days-per-week base training phase]…. What a lot of people don't know is that I had a knee injury last fall… "a little bit of inflammation under my tendon. It was kind of swollen a little bit."
With two wild-card defending champion passes to the World Championships in his pocket, Gay said, "I feel good about that—especially considering I had an injury, a setback. I would have to rush my training [were he not the defending double champion], but right now I can just take my time and get ready for August."
Although the knee pain afflicted Gay's left leg, the same leg on which he tore a hamstring in his Olympic Trials 200 semi last July, there was no connection between the two injuries, "none whatsoever," according to Gay, who added that the leg is now pain free. /Sieg Lindstrom/
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