Tyson Gay hadn’t been seen or heard from much since he fell on the track during the quarterfinals for the 200 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials on July 5. Gay worked out at Beijing Normal University on Sunday and deemed himself “100 percent” and “fully recovered” Monday. But the truth is: No one, including Gay, can be 100 percent certain that he is fully recovered until he races for the first time Friday. (The semifinals and finals are Saturday.) Gay has not run since he strained his left hamstring, pulling out of a scheduled appearance in a London meet July 25. Furthermore, German orthopedist Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfarth, who spent a month working with Gay in Munich, determined that the injury was more serious than originally diagnosed. Gay, who won the 100 and 200 at the world championships last year, will have to be 100 percent to take the gold medal. Jamaica’s Asafa Powell broke the world record (9.74) last year before his fellow countryman, Usain Bolt, ran a 9.72 earlier this year. Baseball Two days before the tournament begins, the Americans won a tune-up game against China, 7-3. Nate Schierholtz homered and doubled after the team received an on-field and dugout visit from President Bush, who stayed for about two innings. Fans and media weren’t allowed admittance until after Bush left. The U.S. team opens round-robin Olympic play Wednesday against Korea. IOC-Iraq Iraq’s government and the International Olympic Committee agreed Monday on a process to govern the election of a new Iraqi Olympic body after a dispute prevented some Iraqi athletes from competing in the Beijing Games. The agreement, reached on the sidelines of the games in Beijing, is the latest chapter in the three-month dispute between Iraq and the IOC. It began when Iraq’s Shiite-led government dismissed the country’s national Olympic committee, accusing its members of corruption and replacing them with a team led by a Cabinet minister. The committee had included several holdovers from the Saddam Hussein era, when Sunni Arabs had the greatest role. A compromise reached late last month allowed Iraqi athletes to participate in Beijing, but it was too late for some of them because entry deadlines for their sports had passed. Only four Iraqi athletes of the original seven are representing the country in Beijing. Russia/Georgia conflict Meetings of Olympic athletes from Georgia and Russia became possible flashpoints after fighting broke out in the separatist South Ossetia region Thursday. Not at the Beijing shooting range. Hours after Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili persuaded his nation’s Olympic team to stay in Beijing, countrywoman Nino Salukvadze placed third behind China’s Guo Wenjin and Russia’s Natalia Paderina in Sunday’s 10-meter air pistol final. With their Olympic medals around their necks, Salukvadze and Paderina smiled at each other, embraced and then kissed on the cheek. The shooters were competing as Russian warships headed toward Georgia in an escalation of the conflict that started on the eve of the games. Russia sent troops in the following day in what it said was a response to Georgia’s assault on Russian citizens and peacekeeping forces.

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