LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Noah Lyles was “super excited” Tuesday about his progress toward defending his 100 and 200 meters titles at track and field’s world championships next month.

The Paris Olympics 100-meter champion lost weeks of training to an unspecified injury in April and ran his first sub-10 seconds time this season on Saturday in Poland.

Lyles aims to build on that 9.90 dash — second by 0.03 to the fastest man in the world this year, Kishane Thompson of Jamaica — in another 100 Wednesday on the Diamond League circuit.

“I’m super excited because I’m seeing the progression,” the 28-year-old American said at a news conference in Lausanne ahead of the Athletissima meet.

Lyles will no longer face Thompson, who ran 9.75 in June, after the Olympic silver medalist opted to

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