Noah Lyles: ‘The future of sprinting is hazy right now. Nobody knows which direction to go in’ | Jack Snape
The American sprint king on young emerging rivals including Gout Gout, his advancing years and uncertainty surrounding the sport
Sprint king Noah Lyles sits smiling and calm after the storm that returned him to the throne in Tokyo, reflective even. He has expressed a desire, having now won four successive 200m world titles, to surpass Usain Bolt’s record with a fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2027.
But the American’s mind has wandered even further. “I have a strong blueprint of what I want my last year in the sport to look like,” he says. “I’ve looked pretty far into the future.”