'I wasn't going to make a mistake like that' — Noah Lyles reflects about why Olympic 100m was his to lose

Olympic 100m champion ‘ story is one that will probably be told for years to come.

It is already being told in the Netflix documentary SPRINT, where his has made him one of the main characters in the popular series.

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The American is a , trying to push his sport into a new age where track athletes can garner the same attention as NBA players, footballers, and the other big-name sportspeople that fill the back pages of newspapers and go viral on social media.

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While his reputation is a good thing, Lyles has opened up about why he was confident of being announced champion of the 100m  after racing in one of the closely-contested short distances witnessed in recent times.

American sprinter Noah Lyles has revealed the surprising reason behind his bold pre-race antics, explaining how they impact his performance.

«I was almost shocked because I was like, this is not how I envisioned it. But, you know, I believed it because I knew I was the champion. I just knew that it had to be me because I wasn’t going to make a mistake like that, not in this close of a race,» Lyles told .

Lyles was on top of the world, still in the chase for the history-making target of four gold medals he had set himself before the Games, with his favorite 200m event — a race in which — still to come.

But what happened next would rock his Olympic campaign and set him a challenge that no amount of self-belief could counter.

Day’s before the 200m finals, he tested positive for COVID-19 but opted to give it a go in his favored specialty. Lyles is used to battling against the odds, used to dealing with the types of setbacks that can be devastating for a high-level sprinter and that is how his entire life has been.

Victory was beyond his reach but the bronze medal he won before collapsing on the track and being whisked away in a wheelchair was, arguably, the greatest achievement of his life.

Noah Lyles is once again dominating headlines as the 2025 season set to begin. His first race this year is set for February and he will come up against Tokyo Olympic 100m champion Marcel Jacobs in that memorial event.