Tyson Gay aiming to KO Usain Bolt in 100m

When he was asked to name a headline for next Monday's newspapers, the American had no hesitation what it would be - 'Tyson Gay shocks the world'.

The night before at 8.35pm 60,000 people will go silent in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin for what could one of the greatest 100m in history as Gay goes head-to-head against Usain Bolt.

What is often forgotten when all the plaudits are rightly sent the way of Bolt is that Gay has actually won a race in a quicker time than the Jamaican achieved with his 9.69s 100m world record in Beijing last summer.

Early in the summer of 2008 at the US Trials, Gay won in 9.68. It was not recorded in the history books because of a massive tailwind of 4.1 but it provided the speed merchant from Kentucky with enough confidence to know his body can take him to those levels. No athlete has been clocked winning a race quicker.

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