Noah Lyles’s dream of successful 4 gold medals on the Paris Olympic Video games is over. After sprinting to a bronze medal within the males’s 200m ultimate on Thursday night time, Lyles revealed that he had examined optimistic for COVID-19 simply two days prior. Consequently, he has determined to finish his Olympic Video games early and won’t compete for Group USA within the relay occasions.
Through the 200m ultimate, Lyles burst out of the decision room with power, taunting his opponents. Nonetheless, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana dashed his hopes of an Olympic dash double by setting an African space file of 19.46 seconds to win gold. Kenny Bednarek from Group USA took silver in 19.62 seconds, whereas Lyles settled for bronze, marking his second consecutive Olympic bronze on this occasion with a time of 19.70 seconds.
Noah Lyles says his objective is to win 4 gold medals in Paris
Final Sunday, Lyles had received gold within the males’s 100m in 9.79 seconds. Nonetheless, 4 days later, he revealed that he felt winded after the 200m ultimate, collapsing and gesturing for water earlier than leaving the monitor in a wheelchair. Lyles defined that he awoke feeling horrible at 5 a.m. on Tuesday and subsequently examined optimistic for COVID-19. Regardless of contracting the virus, he remained decided to compete within the ultimate.
Lyles informed reporters he had spent the final two days attempting to remain hydrated and quarantined in his room.
In a post-race Instagram message, Lyles congratulated Tebogo and Bednarek, acknowledging that this was not the Olympic expertise he had envisioned. He got here to Paris hoping to change into the primary males’s sprinter to win 4 Olympic golds (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, and 4x400m relay). Sadly, Lyles will miss the 4x100m and 4x400m relay finals, leaving Group USA with out its quickest sprinter. Lyles concluded the submit by saying that he believes the workforce can nonetheless win gold with out him
French newspaper Le Monde reported final month that there are not any obligatory, preventative COVID-19 measures being carried out on the Summer season Video games.
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