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All eyes on Usain Bolt even if training in seclusion
Just don’t read too much into it, cautioned Spearmon.
“I know he hasn’t lost in a while so he has this misperception that he’s invincible,” Spearmon said. “But he’s the first person to tell you that even he can lose a race — and he did. I don’t think it affects his chances at all. I think it gave Blake some confidence. But I think Bolt will be all right.”
Blake ran 9.85 seconds in a tuneup race last week in Switzerland. He definitely had plenty of eyes on him, too.
A few hundred miles away in Monaco, Tyson Gay watched Blake run with keen interest in a hotel lobby. Gay studied the start of the sprinter nicknamed the “Beast,” watched his acceleration phase and his finish.
The verdict?
“Yohan looked real strong and real fit,” Gay said. “He’s going to be tough to beat.”
As for the other Jamaican, hard to believe Bolt can be referred to as “the other Jamaican”, Gay is not writing Bolt off yet.
