Noah Lyles Reveals His Biggest Olympics Regret Despite Winning ‘Best’ 100m Gold Medal

has won numerous medals but he still has one big regret at the Games.

won his first Olympics gold when he got the better of Jamaican at the Paris Olympics to win the 100m, adding it onto his two bronze medals, both won in 200m.

At the World Championships, also won 100m gold at the 2023 edition, making him one of the most successful sprinters.

PAY ATTENTION: Stay updated with the from Pulse Sports.

However, still regrets that he has not been able to win an Olympics gold in 200m, a race he considers his ‘baby’ as it is the distance that has brought him a lot of success.

Olympics champion Noah Lyles will run a longer distance in Florida this weekend in what will be his first outdoor event of the season.

at the last three World Championships in 2019, 2022 and 2023 and only signed up for the 100m in Budapest, Hungary two years ago, which he won.

During a conversation on the, which he co-hosts with fellow sprinters Grant Holloway and Rai Benjamin, Lyles’ fellow Olympics champions felt his lack of a 200m gold is one of those black spots in his legacy.

“I need one more, I am missing a gold in the 200m,” Lyles said of his desire to win Olympics 200m gold.

“I really want you to get that bro, I really do,” Holloway weighed in before Lyles added: “It is going to come.”

Athing Mu is preparing to start her season this week but it could be a painful campaign yet again given a number of factors witnessed from her in the recent past.

100m gold a ‘flex’ but Lyles regrets missing 200m title

Benjamin explained how he felt his track colleague Lyles needs to work on winning the 200m Olympics title.

“I was just driving and I was like, Noah has done so much but that 200m, like his baby, has been so elusive at the Games,” said the Olympics 400m hurdles champion.

“It is crazy to say I have an Olympics 100m gold before the 200m gold,” added Lyles before Benjamin talked of how big the 100m is considered. “That is a flex though,” said Benjamin.

“It is a flex but at the same time, I am like I want that 200m. But yeah, I love that [100m] medal, it is a very exciting medal to look at. Every time I look at it, I am like; ‘damn I did that sh*t’,” said Lyles.

Sports CS Salim Mvurya has provided an update on when the remaining renovation works at Kasarani Stadium will be completed before test matches start being held at the venue in June.

medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics as he came into the Games as the world champion over both distances.

However, he was run close by Thompson in 100m, winning by 0.005 seconds, but hopes of a dominant 200m win went up in smoke when he was stunned by Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo to finish third behind fellow American .