The 2025 World Athletics Championships begin on Saturday in Tokyo as the world's best track and field athletes compete in the biggest event on the calendar in a non-Olympic year. The headlining races, as has long been the case, will be the 100- and 200-meter competitions. On the men's side, Americans Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek boast quite the rivalry in both events, and Jamaican sprinters Kishane Thompson and Oblique Seville are top threats in the 100.

All of them are chasing a ghost that they may never catch. Usain Bolt's world records of 9.58 seconds in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200 remain more than 15 years after he set those marks at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. At a Puma event in Tokyo prior to this year's worlds, Bolt offered a blunt response when asked if he worries th

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