Noah Lyles Sets Rivalry Aside to Reveal Kishane Thompson’s Inspiring Training Detail at World Championships Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson turn rivalry into respect, bonding over anime as their World

In Paris last summer, the men’s 100 meters ended in a finish so precise it required thousandths of a second to separate the champion from the runner-up. Noah Lyles of the United States stopped the clock at 9.784, while Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson trailed by just five-thousandths at 9.789. That razor-thin margin created a rivalry that captured imaginations, and it carried into Tokyo for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, where both men again stood on the line in pursuit of sprinting’s most coveted title. Yet what began as competition has developed into something more unexpected. A bond forged over a shared passion that extends far beyond the track.

The 100-meter final in Tokyo on September 14 did not conclude with either Lyles or Thompson at the top. Instead, their compatriot Oblique S