2024-08-04 20:06:44
Special representative to Paris20 years later, an American reigned again in the 100 meters. Noah Lyles won the fastest time for the United States with an impressive victory as he clocked almost the same time as Kishane Thompson of Jamaica, 9.79. The difference is five thousandths of a second. Many years of work, days of study and glory are determined by five thousand. Give a hand to the neck, give a blow to the head, give a last effort when you can’t do it anymore.
The athlete from Florida, who had only one idea in him for many years, the reign in Paris, won by lifting his neck as much as he could, after a race in which he started slowly. In fact, it is the worst generator, with the lowest speedup time. In these races, where everything happens in three or nothing, these details can destroy you, although the great champions, like Bolt, have this thing woken up slowly, as if they wanted to provoke the body they rise by chasing rivals. Lyles was still behind at 40 meters and by the time he reached 50, he had moved up a position. It seemed impossible to see him win, but his last 10 meters were devastating. It may be a short distance, but whoever comes out the best wins, whoever shares the best power for less than 9 seconds wins.
It was a beautiful finish, with all runners close, coming in under 0.20 seconds. In the end, they all ended up staring at the screen, worried, wondering who would have won. That had a day with glory was Lyles, with his best self. He was the winner of a final with a very high standard where, in fact, for the first time a man went under 10 seconds and stayed in the semi-finals.
Finally, in front of 70,000 people who helped put on a huge pre-race light show with purple bows handed out to everyone, was a letter of introduction for Lyles who had already been in previous Games, when you are young and with less. experience, and was third in the 200 meter freestyle. This Olympic career, he has worked hard to improve in the 100 meters, managing to shine at the right time and place: the final.
The winner has to be him, the guy who said that getting medals is not enough. That we need to rethink the sport, that we need to leave a mark, with a word that mixes today with the pedantry of Muhammad Ali. His statement before the Paris Games made it clear: “I have no limits. You have to have the mentality of a god to win. You have to have the mentality of a god to think all the time that you will win the race. To believe. This is a must have. I don’t believe in gods. I believe in myself. My thoughts are very strong. And if not, I will teach you to eat, “said the athlete from Florida, who made a big show when he showed it, jumping, touching his face as if he were an animal. If, in the past, Usain Bolt before the races seemed to have a good mood, Lyles wanted to scare.
The American, who wanted to win more medals in the relays and also in his major, the 200 meters, managed to win a race in which the Jamaicans, after ten years of government, were grateful Bolt, stand up thank goodness. Thompson’s role, which narrowed the entire race. Behind, the reigning champion, Italian Marcell Jacobs, who has done enough to be fifth, affected by injuries, is suffering. Third place went to another American, Fred Kerley. South Africa’s Akani Simbine, who has been at heaven’s gate for years, finished fourth.
Born in Florida, but raised in Virginia in a sports-loving family, Lyles wanted to be a gymnast until he saw Usain Bolt on TV in 2012. It was like a revelation. He understood that he wanted to be an athlete, that he had to be to America what Bolt was to Jamaica. Back in Florida, to study and compete, he has been dancing stages, not always easily, because in 2021 he suffered a depression caused in part by the pandemic, which cut short his work, and events that happened in the United States after that. the killing at the hands of the police of a citizen of color George Floyd. After an impressive record in the world championships, he revealed what he did in a press conference where he said “I looked at the NBA and I saw that the champion was given the title of world champion. world champion? To the World Cup or a Games where the whole world is, I don’t want to be misconstrued, I want the United States… but when they win we say that we are the world champions… no, the world is big “. So he complained about the American tradition of announcing as the “world champion” the champion of his leagues, like basketball.
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Lyles, by the way, in the USA to quickly recover from the bad memory of Saturday, when they lost the women’s 100 and 4×100 relay, making it clear that everything he said, even if it was a small high , maybe it is. honest “I am ready to pass the sport. The medals are first because without them, who cares about it? We need to push the history of sports. We must do more; we have to present it to the world “, a man active in the networks, who cooperates with companies that show on commercial signs, with a documentary on Netflix and who, whenever he can, looks for the camera. In Paris it was the camera that came to him.
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