BUDAPEST, Hungary—Noah Lyles calls himself the “Told you're not a 100 guy.” That didn't stop him. In fact, nobody could Sunday at the world championships in what has always been his second-best race. Now, he doesn't see anyone slowing his path to becoming the world's next great Olympic sprinter. The…
Noah Lyles: They said it couldn’t be done. They said I wasn’t the one. But thank God I am!BUDAPEST, Hungary—Noah Lyles calls himself the “Told you’re not a 100 guy.” That didn’t stop him.
Witty, outspoken, unafraid to bet on himself, Lyles might just be the guy to add some fire back to a sprint game where titles have been shuffled between men of few words and names from out of nowhere since Bolt left six years ago. The Paris Olympics are less than 12 months away. “I listen to the athlete, and they tell me what they want to try to do,” Brauman said. “When I got him, everybody in the world told me he needs to be a 2-4 guy. But he wanted to be a 100-meter runner.”
Lyles didn’t even get a chance to do the honor. Kerley got beat in the semifinal round and Lyles’ closest competition in the final came from Letsile Tebogo, a 20-year-old from Botswana who became the first African to win a medal in 100 at worlds. He took silver in 9.873, .001 ahead of British national-record holder Zharnel Hughes.
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