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April 30, 2010, 5:07am
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I was wondering whether he might be thinking of an assault on the Olympic 400m in London because: (a) Bolt won’t go to 400 until after London, if ever; b) that tool Merritt is out until just before London and may be underdone if he’s even still in the game; c) Tyson has the short speed to make the kind of impression theoretically that people have been predicting Bolt could make at 400m.
The only thing I can see weighing against Gay shocking at 400m is that his asset is stride rate rather than length, so perhaps there is a question of economy in Tyson’s case. But Michael Johnson appeared to have a stride patterning which owed more to rate than length and he did OK at 400m as well as 200m.
I wonder if Tyson runs something a bit special in Jamaica - say, down around 44.4, whether he might come to the realisation that if he is ever to win an individual Olympic gold medal it might well be in the 400?
Interesting thought.