“I’m super excited because I’m seeing the progression. I mean, third race of the year, or third hundred of the year, and I’m already seeing I’m back into 9.90, you know, if the wind blew a little bit, it would have been a 9.89 race. I mean, you can’t get more excited than that,” Noah Lyles said with visible delight during the pre-race press conference in Lausanne. On August 20, he was gearing up for his fourth Diamond League appearance of the outdoor season—two of them in the 100m and another in the 200m. But here’s where things get interesting.

At the Monaco Diamond League, Noah Lyles got the better of Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo in the 200m, avenging his defeat to the young sprinter in the Paris Olympic final. But when it came to the 100m, the story was different. Lyles fell shor

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