The American sprinter Tyson Gay finished second to Bolt in 9.71 and broke his own American record.

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Mr. FATSIS: And you watch someone like Oscar Pistorius or someone like the American sprinter Marlon Shirley - who's run the 100 meters in under 11 seconds, the only disabled athlete to do that - there isn't that much difference.

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That was the American team, Columbia HTC, whose sprinter, Englishman Mark Cavendish, won six stages.

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The Bahamian sprinter clocked 11.12secs in damp conditions while American Torri Edwards took third.

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The 6-foot-2, 220 pounder with sprinter's speed he was an all-American in the 400-meter hurdles grabbed plenty of headlines and attention with that first Friday performance against the Horned Frogs and ended the first month of the season with more touchdown passes than incompletions.

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That's how the sprinter became a triple world champion in 2007 and later set the American record in the 100 meters.

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