With confidence aplenty, the American sprinter will head to Paris as one of Team USA's feature athletes, with his sights set on multiple gold medals.
EUGENE, Ore.—The fastest man in the world did his all-a-blur routine again on Saturday. His name is Noah Lyles, and in the time it took to type that sentence, he finished half of the Olympic trials final in the 200-meter dash. He ran the second half even faster.
That wasn’t even how Lyles spoke the loudest. His performance grabbed the megaphone. He started fast, catching Knighton, the remarkably fast 20-year-old, by the turn. Bednarek led both the others by then. But there came Lyles, each step eating into the deficit. He was sprinting, yes, but he almost looked like a galloping thoroughbred churning down the backstretch. He won.
Anyone who landed anywhere near Lyles’s orbit in recent weeks could sense the confidence and assuredness that marked his every step and his every sentence. He offered honest answers after races and, sure, maybe it came across as bravado. That’s O.K. The truth often does. Lyles, meanwhile, staged a one-man show. He flashed rare Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, pulled from his singlet before races. For the 100-meter final, Snoop Dogg basically escorted Lyles out to the track.
With another weekend of trials competition before the U.S. team was nearly set, Friday’s track action assumed a heightened importance—for the stage that it might set. Both the men’s and women’s 200-meter finals took place in the same two-hour stretch on Saturday evening, in front of a nearly full crowd at the track stadium with the tower and the towering speedsters sprinting underneath it.
“I was really happy. That felt like a smooth, easy run,” Thomas said. Happy with her race, undoubtedly. But also likely happy with her decision to concentrate on the 200 and not try and compete at that distance and at 400 meters.Then, on Saturday evening, she went out and proved herself correct. Just like Lyles would.
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