Herculis Monaco announces Tyson Gay!

Monaco announces Tyson Gay as its first Ambassador of meeting Herculis - IAAF Diamond League 3 May 2010 – Monaco – 2007 World 100m and 200m champion Tyson Gay has today been confirmed by the organisers of the meeting Herculis Monaco - IAAF Diamond League - as one of the stars of its meeting which will take place on Thursday 22 July. Herculis Monaco, held in Stadium Louis II, is the 10th leg of the 14 meeting IAAF Diamond League season in 2010. Tyson Gay, who is one of the 14 athletes who are IAAF Diamond League Ambassadors, took the 2009 IAAF World Championships 100m silver medal in Berlin last summer. Gay respectively stands on the all-time list as the second quickest sprinter ever at 100m and third fastest at 200m, thanks to his 9.69 sec (2.0m/s) performance in Shanghai (20/09/09) and his 19.58 sec (1.3m/s) run in New York (30/05/2009). With his 44.89 run for 400m on April 17th in Gainesville Florida, Gay also became the first man in history to dip under 10.00 in the 100m, under 20.00 in the 200m, and under 45.00 in the 400!! “I have great memories from Monaco,” commented Gay. “In 2005, I had my first major victory on the international athletics circuit there. In 2007, I was honored to receive the World Athlete-of-the-Year award at the Gala and just this December I was included as part of the exciting launch of the new IAAF Diamond League circuit. Herculis always has some of the top performances of the season and my goal is place my name on the list of stadium records at Stade Louis II.” Meeting Director Jean-Pierre Schoebel: “We are glad to have Tyson back in Monaco, because everyone here has still in mind Tyson’s fantastic run during the 2005 World Athletics Final, where his victory in 19.96 revealed him to the face of the world. This time, the 19.92 stadium record set by Maurice Greene in 1999 might even be threatened.. Also, we are currently redoing the track, and this new surface Conica should be a substantial help for great performances.”