Remember how much fun some of us had here about a year ago laughing our butts off when OneNewsNow.com, the whackadoodle, American Family Association-funded "news" site reported, very stupidly (and quite erroneously), that an American runner by the unlikely name of "Tyson Homosexual" had run the fastest 100 meter sprint ever? We knew something was amiss at that site (but didn't we always?), because we knew that in reality there is no such person as Tyson Homosexual; rather, the U.S. athlete's name is Tyson Gay. Ahh, the great lengths some people go to in order to erase all that might be queer.
Well, here's a little something to take your mind off the rebounding economy (ha), the slumping Red Sox (ugh), and the Valley Swim Club (OMFG, really? in 2009?). Tyson Gay (who I think we here ought to affectionately dub "Tyson Heterosexual", since that is a more accurate misnomer than OneNewsNow.com's homo-filtering moniker) is at it again. Yep. According to this Reuters story:
Tyson Gay ran a world leading 9.77 seconds to win the 100 metres at Rome's Golden Gala on Friday [July 10, 2009] and show Olympic champion Usain Bolt that he will not surrender his world sprint titles without a fight next month.
The American had to equal his personal best to see off Bolt's Jamaican compatriot and former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell, who ran 9.88 despite saying beforehand was not fully fit after suffering an ankle injury over two months ago.
Take THAT Barbados Slim!
OK, Tyson's 9.77 seconds is not quite as fast as his 9.68 seconds which was his world's fastest clocked last year. But still, hats off to ya Mr. Gay! I don't know about y'all here, but I'm thinking Tyson Gay is going to have some Olympic Gold around his neck given that:
Friday's win comes after he ran a wind-assisted 9.75 seconds in the 100m at the U.S. world championship trials last month and 19.58 in the 200m in May in New York, the third fastest ever.
Oh, and by the way, nuthin' being said over at OneNewsNow.com about Tyson's latest kick-butt performance.