Noah Lyles’ “dream goal” for the Paris Olympics was to interrupt the world report within the 200M, however plans do not at all times work out the way you hope.
4 days after successful america’ first gold medal within the males’s 100m since 2004, Lyles took the monitor to perform a feat final carried out by Carl Lewis in 1984: successful each the 100m and 200m representing the Stars and Stripes.
Lyles entered the Paris monitor because the overwhelming favourite in, by far, his greatest occasion as a three-time world champion (2019, 2022, 2023). Nevertheless, he was by no means in a position to get well from a tough begin and needed to accept bronze.
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Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Workforce United States reacts after competing within the Males’s 200m Remaining on day 13 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 8, 2024, in Paris, France. (Hannah Peters/Getty Photos)
Lyles crossed the road at 19.70, practically a quarter-second off gold-medal winner Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, and 0.39 seconds off his personal private greatest.
After the race, Lyles wanted to be tended to by medical workers. He was seen carrying a masks on Wednesday and earlier than the race on Thursday. NBC then introduced that Lyles had examined constructive for COVID-19 two days earlier, discovering out from his “distraught” mom. USA Observe and Discipline confirmed the constructive case to the BBC. He’s additionally asthmatic.
Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Workforce United States exhibits his dejection after competing within the Males’s 200m Remaining on day 13 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 8, 2024, in Paris, France. ( Patrick Smith/Getty Photos)
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Lyles’ response time of 0.173 was the slowest of the eight runners within the race. He was tied for the slowest response time within the males’s 100m, as effectively, however he nonetheless managed to drag off a private better of 9.79, successful by five-thousandths of a second. After all, that was earlier than he was sick.
Lyles additionally settled for bronze in Tokyo. American Kenny Bednarek earned his second-straight silver medal within the occasion.
Nonetheless, Lyles doubled his whole Olympic medal depend with the race – he now has three in whole.
Noah Lyles of Workforce United States appears on earlier than competing within the Males’s 200m Remaining on day 13 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 8, 2024, in Paris, France. (Elsa/Getty Photos)
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Relying on his well being, the 27-year-old now figures to show his consideration towards the lads’s 4×100 meter relay. Lyles didn’t run within the preliminaries on Thursday morning, prone to preserve any power for the 200m.
With the brand new COVID-19 diagnoses, it stays to be seen whether or not he’ll run within the remaining. He was part of the world championship workforce final 12 months in Budapest.
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