In his first big race, Noah Lyles immediately removed all doubts about his class this year. He now has to do that against another runner.
When Noah Lyles occurs, it becomes loud and bright, then the spectators shout and flickers the flash of the cameras like crazy. How much this is the case was seen again for the first time after a long time at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
So far, only Armand Duplantis had brought the glamor factor into the stadiums because the pole vaulter with his many world records outsources the competition and exuases all other athletes.
Lyles takes the place of Duplantis again
Duplantis belonged to the show – but in Monaco it belonged to Lyles again. He is the Olympic champion over 100 meters, world champion over the same distance and over 200 meters, he is the greatest star of the whole sport. But he has made himself rare in the past few months. When the Diamond League traveled to the Principality, the King of Athletics traveled. His mission: show that he is still the king.
Lyles had not contested a big single race this year. In Gainesville he tested his speed endurance at a meeting in mid-April when he started over 400 meters and showed himself in the 4×100 meter relay. But the fans want to see his top speed as a single athlete. As such, Kishane Thompson, especially over 100 and Letsile Tebogo, had appeared over 200 meters as outstanding athletes.
Tebogo had already defeated Lyles at the Olympic Games when the American fell bronze over 200 meters. So in Monaco there was the opportunity to revenge, which was also the opportunity to show the world athletics that, despite his long abstinence, he is still the best sprinter in the world. And he celebrated a dream comeback.
“Every moment is created for me”
Lyles defeated his 200-meter rival and conjured up a very good time on the track at 19.88 second. The 27-year-old is only nine in this discipline this year, but the performance is upgraded by the fact that he had relatively strong headwind, while the athletes positioned in the leaderboard all had the wind in the back.
The fastest over the 200 meters: Noah Lyles
In terms of sport, Lyles showed that he still seems to be the old one – and after that he showed that he is definitely the old one when it comes to self -confidence. “I just think that every moment is created for me. I am created for a time like this”said the six -time world champion, who most recently had to struggle with problems on the ankle.
Lyles’ opponent is now Kishane Thompson
Lyles is over 200 meters back in the top of the world, but the greatest focus in athletics is on the 100 meters. And Kishane Thompson is currently running away. With 9.75 seconds, the Jamaican recently became the sixth fastest sprinter in athletics history, in Eugene the silver medalist from Paris won a few days before the Monaco Meeting on American soil in Eugene in 9.85 seconds.
Lyles’ has no time over 100 meters this season, but he is also facing a comeback at a short distance. On July 19, he started at the Diamond League meeting in London-according to the world championships and Olympic games, the largest meeting of athletics-for the first time this year in an official 100-meter race. Does the superstar make superstar things there too?