Tyson Gay will no longer compete today at the USA Bobsled National Push Championships, USA Bobsled confirmed.
Gay, the American 100m record holder, recently started pushing a sled with the goal of making the U.S. team for the 2016-17 World Cup season.
But after arriving in Calgary on Monday, Gay met with the coaching staff and decided that it was not in his best interest to compete in today’s men’s push athletes competition.
He could still enter the men’s two-man combinations Friday or the men’s three-man combinations Saturday. Athletes are required to compete at the USA Bobsled National Push Championships if they intend to compete during the World Cup season, which begins the last weekend of November.