Amid Noah Lyles’s Heroics in Tokyo, Oblique Seville & Co Revive Usain Bolt-Era Magic in World Athletics Championships From Noah Lyles’s heroics to Jamaica’s Seville-led resurgence, Tokyo’s World Athle

At the 2017 World Championships, the world’s fastest man bid farewell to track and field, closing his legendary career with a bronze medal. For nearly a decade, Usain Bolt carried the Jamaican flag high at sprinting’s biggest stages, ensuring no rival could dethrone the island nation. But when he stepped away, surrendering his crown, the Jamaican ship seemed to have holes. By the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, not a single Jamaican sprinter reached the men’s 100m final, a shock that even Bolt lamented: “ I ‘ m just disappointed because I think we do have the talent, it’s just to harvest it and people to take the training seriously and get it done.” The Paris Games offered no redemption either. But now, times have changed, Jamaica’s sprinting fire is flickering back to life, with Oblique Seville,