“Everything here was about winning and beating people, nothing to do with times,” said Jon Drummond, Gay’s coach. “This year is about that Olympic gold medal.”
So Drummond wanted Gay to apply the brakes -- not cut the motor -- in the first two rounds.
“Hindsight, I would have said, ‘Run through the finish line (in the quarterfinals), we get the world record,’” Drummond said. “He didn’t. We still got the American record.”
Gay did not break the world record (9.72) Sunday because the tail wind, 9.1 m.p.h., was well above the allowable 4.4 for record purposes. A chart used to determine the impact of tail winds translates Gay’s 9.68 to a 9.86 under calm conditions and 9.78 with a wind at the allowable maximum.
“It means a lot,” Gay said. “I’m pretty sure people are going to start stepping down into that (9.6) area, but I’m glad my body went that fast, because I believe with a [legal] wind I can do it.”
- Gay is world’s fastest man - Wins 100 in brisk 9.68, but tail wind means no record, Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2008.
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