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World champion Tyson Gay's dream of an Olympics double ended in pain when he crashed out of the US 200m quarter-finals.
Already qualified for Beijing in the 100m, Gay had run only 12 strides - about 40m - of the 200m when he grabbed at his left hamstring and tumbled to the track with a severe cramp.
He lay there for several minutes before he was taken away from the facility in a cart.
"Before I went out on the track I felt a little tightness in my hamstring so I had kind of a bad feeling," Gay said.
"When I came off [the first part of] the curve the first two steps were fine, and then I felt it, sort of a pull, about 40m.
The injury was a major blow to the US hopes in Beijing since under the strict qualifying procedure of the trials only the top three finishers make the Olympic team regardless of circumstances.
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