You don’t generally bet against Noah Lyles on a track. But Usain Bolt saw the odds were in their favor – the sun was rising on Jamaica again. “I think we’re looking good this year,” the 11-time World Champion said to NBC Sports on September 13 while discussing their chances in the 100m sprint. But believing is one thing. And seeing your countrymen actually turn the hopes into reality is a feeling like none other. And even the zen Usain Bolt couldn’t control himself after what unfolded in the 100m men’s sprint at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships.
Oblique Seville – 1; Kishane Thompson – 2; Noah Lyles – 3. It’s the third name that makes the achievement of Seville and Thompson all the more worthy. It almost rarely happens that Lyles is on the track and there are two sprinter