Gout Gout is doing things Noah Lyles wasn’t doing as a teenager. Lyles admits, Gout, at 17, is better than he was.

Lyles is the best 200m runner since Usain Bolt. He has won the past three world championships 200m gold medals and on Thursday night ran 19.51 seconds – the quickest time of any sprinter in the semi-finals at the Tokyo world championships. He won the 100m Olympic gold in Paris last year and bronze in the 200m.

On sprinting, what he says matters.

“He’s more talented than I was,” Lyles said on Thursday after his semi-final.

“I mean, there’s nothing but great talent coming up. He’s an amazing kid, he’s got a great head on him. You got a great team around him. It’s going to be interesting to see how he develops.

“The thing that I always look for when I’m looking at younger ta

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