Gay wins race despite leg injury

LONDON (AP) — Tyson Gay didn’t look like a man preparing to end Usain Bolt’s sprinting supremacy at the world championships next month.

Limping and lethargic, Gay won the 200-meter race at the London Grand Prix in 20.00 seconds on Saturday.

He then needed painkillers to deal with a groin injury and went straight from the track to a treatment room at the Crystal Palace.

Making the worlds in Berlin will be quite a challenge for Gay. The 26-year-old American remains confident, though, that he can defend his 100 and 200 world titles against Bolt, the Olympic champion and world record-holder.

Gay says he’s “taking it one day at a time.

“My groin has been tight on me, I’m trying to take a little Advil to run through the pain. Right now I’m running on faith and that’s more dangerous than anything. I don’t feel anything when I hear the gun. I just run and I’m dangerous.

“It’s after that I feel it.”

Meanwhile, Bolt and his teammates ran the fourth-fastest 400-meter relay time in history — 37.46 seconds. Bolt anchored the team that included fellow Jamaicans Yohan Blake and Mario Forsythe, plus Antigua’s Daniel Bailey, representing the Kingston-based Racers Track Club.