Noah Lyles opens up on how coming from sporting family turned him into a fearless sprinter

Olympics 100m champion Noah has explained how coming from a sporting family shaped him into the revered sprinter that he is now.

and his brother Josephus caught the athletics bug from their parents, both track athletes, and while they were still aged 12, they declared ambitions of running at the

That was while in high school while watching the 2012 London Olympics when a random suggestion, set them on the path to glory with the assistance of their mother.

“By the time we got to 2012 and the Olympics are going on, we are watching Usain [Bolt], Allyson Felix and Shelly-Ann [Fraser-Pryce] and my brother just jumps off the bed and he is like; ‘Bro we are going to the Olympics,’” Lyles said on the

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“And I am like; I’m listening, you got my ear.’ And he is like; ‘If we drop a second every year, we could go to the Olympics’ and on paper, that is exactly what we had to do. But dropping a second is crazy to say the least every year. Even dropping 0.2 or a 10th of a second is crazy.

“Like my PR in the 200m is 19.31, fastest time ever in American history in the 200m, [but] the world record is 19.19, it seems very close but when you raced, it is crazy. So, to say we are going to drop a second each year and we are eighth graders,”

Lyles said their mother’s belief in them helped a great deal as she gave them confidence and that it how he made it to the 2016 US Olympics trials where he could not make it past the 100m heats but reached the 200m final.

“We go to our mum and tell her we want to go to the Olympics in 2016 but she is like; ‘Why not 2020, but we are like 2016.’ We knew it and she was like okay, you do your job I do mine’,” he added.

“She set us on a path where to get to the top you need to win nationals and world junior events and that is what we started doing so we are gearing ourselves for this moment so when we finally got to the Olympics trials, it is nothing new.

“We get to the trials in 2016 and I get fourth and I was the first person out but I had broken a junior record and made the junior team and then Adidas came and said; ‘We want to sign you and your brother at high school’ and we turn professional at high school. We prepared for each step.”

Lyles would feature at the 2016 World U20 Championships, winning gold, and this gave him more confidence that his Olympics dream was possible.

With injuries keeping him out of the 2017 World Championships, was ready in 2019 when he won his first 200m world title, adding further gold medals in 2022 and 2023, while he won his first Olympics medal in 2020, a bronze in 200m, before clinching gold in 100m at the Paris 2024 Games as well as another bronze in 200m.

Olympic champion Noah Lyles previously bragged about why it was unthinkable of him losing the Olympics 100m final.