Lyles held off Kenny Bednarek for the 200-meter title, but Richardson finished fourth in the women’s race.
EUGENE, Ore. — By the time Noah Lyles coiled into his starting blocks Saturday night at Hayward Field, the other two names on the sprinting marquee had turned in divergent results. Gabby Thomas had celebrated another championship. Sha’Carri Richardson had exited the track in a surprise position, one place off the podium.
Typically exuberant if discussing his breakfast order, Lyles appeared stunned by the close call. He walked slowly after crossing the finish line, pausing before he raised his arms and smiled. He hugged long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall, knocking her celebratory cowboy hat off her head. Richardson slowed before the line again in the final, but only in recognition that she would not make the podium. She finished in 22.16. She patted Thomas on the arm and walked to embrace Brown. Richardson smiled and blew a kiss to her family as she walked off the track. She declined to speak with reporters.
Erriyon Knighton, 20, made his second Olympic team three years after he became the youngest American male track and field Olympian since 1964. Knighton competed less than two weeks after an independent arbitrator’s ruling lifted a provisional suspension handed down after he tested positive for trenbolone, an anabolic steroid, on March 26. The arbitrator agreed with Knighton’s argument that he had consumed contaminated meat and had not taken a drug to improve performance.
Long emerged in the wake of personal tragedy. Long’s mother, Tara Jones, died in February after a heart attack at 45. Jones had been deeply involved in Long’s track career. At the NCAA championships, Long kept wanting to call her mother. She listens to the playlist her mother used to play while she worked out: “DON’T BE A LAZY B.”Before the race, Richardson, whose biological mother died before the 2021 trials, embraced Long and told her, “I understand what you’re going through.
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