The 2023 World Athletics Championships is coming to a close this weekend at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest.
BUDAPEST, Hungary — When Noah Lyles powered into the straightaway and started pulling away in the 200-meter final, only a few questions remained on a night when track’s best sprinters backed up the hype at world championships.The man who wants to someday be more than a mere sports star stayed on that trajectory Friday in a 19.52-second runaway to become the first man to complete the 100-200 sprint double at worlds since Usain Bolt did it for the third time back in 2015.
Florence Griffith-Joyner’s record of 21.34 is nearly 35 years old and Jackson has now run in the 21.4s twice — this adding to the 21.45 she ran at last year’s worlds. With Thomas, who has a 21.60 on her resume, and now Richardson there to push her, there’s a sense Flo-Jo’s mark could be ready to go in Paris.Earlier this year, Lyles went to social media and declared he was going to run 19.10, which would shatter Bolt’s world record of 19.19 that felt untouchable when he set it in 2009.
Lyles was no worse for wear, and though he was telling the world he would win this race, some of the earlier action on Day 7 at the track reinforced the notion that nothing is for sure. Lyles should be in that final, which gives him a chance to go 3 for 3 in the sprints — a feat Bolt pulled off at worlds in 2009, 2013 and 2015 but that no American has done since Tyson Gay in 2007.If he pulls off a triple in Paris, Lyles would join the likes of Carl Lewis , Wilma Rudolph and Jesse Owens as rare U.S. sprinters to win all three sprints on the sport’s biggest stage — the stage where stars are born.
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