this is my salute to the fabulas tyson gay, the american athlete who won the 100 meters sprint at a time of 9.85 seconds. asafa powel, the present world record holder (9.77sec.) could only muster 9.91 in this race and appeared to have given up with just 15 meters to go. if gay can remain fit he would surely be the favourite for gold in 2008 beijing olympics.
i have been watching a lot of the athletics over this weekend. athletics is my second favourite television sport after cricket. it was so nice to see britain's kelly sutherton to have got a world championship bronze in the heptathlon. i was at the birmingham indoor arena earlier this year when she did really well in the european indoors. on my way to the stadium i had bumped into her and another lesser known british athlete. when i approached them for autographs and a picture, they were just so nice about it. kelly is quite easy on the eye too
