Gay, Spearmon to lead talented U.S. men’s 100/200m sprint corps in Osaka

INDIANAPOLIS - Reigning national 100m/200m champion Tyson Gay and 2005 World Outdoor Championships 200m silver medalist Wallace Spearman will lead a young and very talented group of U.S. sprinters at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, August 25-September 2.

Gay enters the Championships still riding the momentum from his amazing display at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships in June at Indianapolis, where he won the 100m and 200m titles in the most dominant display of sprinting excellence ever seen at a single track meet in the history of the sport.

Gay captured the 100m title by scorching the track in the second-fastest clocking ever run into a headwind (.5 mps) with his time of 9.84 seconds, which is second only to Maurice Greene's 9.82 run into a -0.2 mps headwind at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. Gay's time shattered the meet record of 9.90 jointly held by former world record holders Greene and Leroy Burrell...

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