When Trey Hardee was just a few months old, a fellow church member told his mother Jan DiCesare she’d had a dream about her son.In it, she saw the baby who had been dedicated in church a few days before as an adult holding a big stick. Jan didn’t know what to think of it at the time, but now it all makes perfect sense.Trey will compete in the 2012 Olympics decathlon Aug. 8-9 with Team USA. This will be his second time to compete in the Olympics, and many suspect the 2002 Vestavia Hills High School graduate will take home the gold this year, which would officially make him the World’s Greatest Athlete.“Who would of thunk it?” said Trey, laughing, during a recent phone interview from his home in Texas before heading to Germany for some grueling practices leading up to the London Olympics. “It’s interesting. It’s just the title that comes along with winning (the decathlon gold medal). I don’t really consider myself … I wouldn’t say I was the best in the world.”The decathlon gold medalist is given the title of World’s Greatest Athlete because of the grueling two-day  contest these athletes endure. It’s a combined contest with 10 track and field events. In addition to the long and high jump, shot put, discus throw and runs, the decathlon also includes pole vaulting, which Jan said has to explain the dream her fellow church member had so many years ago.“She said God gave her a vision of Trey holding a giant stick,” she said. “At the time, I was like, maybe a golf club?”A series of events that started Trey’s junior year at Vestavia Hills High School would eventually lead Jan to recognize the “huge stick” in the woman’s dream as the pole used in pole vaulting. At 16 feet, it’s one of the longest pieces of sporting equipment, if not the longest, used in Olympic contests.  more