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Oregon 22 World Athletics Champs, Redux: On Noah Lyles, we told you so!

Elliott DenmanbyElliott Denman
August 9, 2022
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0regon 22 World Athletes Champs Redux: 200 meter final: Noah Lyles leads American sweep with an American record

The important point about Noah Lyle is this: he promised "something special" all season, and he delivered! photo by Kevin Morris

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This piece is by our most senior writer, Elliott Denman, a 1956 Olympic race walker and long-time writer on all things track & field. Elliott has written for American Athletics and our subsequent pubs since 1990. His piece on Noah Lyles is, well, one for the ages. 

Noah Lyles, We told you so! 

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BY ELLIOTT DENMAN

EUGENE, OREGON – Just as a reminder, we told you so.

Years and years ago.

So did John Moon, the famed Seton Hall University track coach.  .

Here’s the story:

 

Back in the mid-1990s, Seton Hall coach Moon, himself former sprints great, was interviewed by this then-Asbury Park Press sports writer (yours truly) about the budding romance of his Seton Hall team members Kevin Lyles and Keisha Caine; Moon delivered a track quote for the ages.

“If and when these two get married, their children are likely to be very fast people,” said Moon, in the story soon delivered to Asbury Park Press readers.
How right we were!
All these years later, Noah Lyles and Josephus Lyles are a lot more than just “very fast people.”
Noah is already a two-time World Championships 200-meter winner.  Josephus can be a medalist at these 2022 Worlds, too, if only they find a place for him on one of the Team USA relay units.
Now, fast forward…..very fast forward.
Noah Lyles had celebrated his 25th birthday on Monday by romping to an easy 200-meter first-round win in the 18th World Championships of Track and Field, hamming it up all the way to the finish line.
Three days later, Lyles was all-business,  all-maturity. No hamming it this time.  No joshing, no early celebrations.
And he thus showed the Hayward Field crowd – and a global TV audience – what he really could do at full-focus, full-throttle, full of the amazing velocity he’s apparently been endowed with at birth. Yes, as predicted by his father’s coach.  As told to the Asbury Park Press.
Noah Lyles, always ready to entertain, runs AR 19.31 and tears off his shirt, photo by Kevin Morris.

Noah Lyles’ decisive World Championships win took just 19.31 seconds, the fastest time ever recorded for the half-lap distance by an American, crossing the line 1/100th of a second faster than Michael Johnson’s winning time at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Only two other men have ever run faster – Jamaicans Usain Bolt (19.19) in 2009 and Yohan Blake (19.26) in 2011.

How’s this for a stat:  Lyles’ first 100 meters (out of the blocks) took 10.15 seconds, his second 100 just 9.16…

Yes, 9.16!

Bolt’s world record for the distance -under standard racing conditions – is .9.58. !!

And Lyles’ blazing performance launched a 1-2-3 Team USA sweep.

Wisconsin’s Kenny Bednarek claimed the sliver in 19.77, Florida’s Erriyon Knighton the bronze in 19.80.

Bednarek is 23, Knighton is just 18, a recent high school graduate and the fastest junior-age (sub-20) dasher in world history, yes, faster even than the young Usain Bolt.

Liberia’s Joseph Fahnbulleh – also the NCAA champion for the University of Florida, clocked in at 19.84; Dominican Republic’s Alexander Ogando (19.84) and Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards (20.08) led all the rest of the world.

“Today was my day; I did what I came here to do,” Lyles, already draped in the gold medal,  told the Hayward crowd in a celebratory post-race interview.

“At first, I thought I was slow, then that time (19.31) popped up (on the big display screen), and I said ‘wow.’ “\

And “wow,” said Hayward attendees, too.

Track and field celebrities have been in the stands, rejoicing in all the golden performances at these Worlds since the meet began.

Tommy Smith and John Carlos, appropriately, were spotlighted guests for this night of the two 200 finals (men and women.)

It was 54 years ago that their podium stance at Mexico City – protesting injustices in their nation -was met with fierce and antagonistic reactions – and which kept on for years.

 

How times have changed – now Smith and Carlos are considered all-time icons of sports history.

Edwin Roberts was in the audience today, too. He’s been a Philadelphian for years – and a top official at major meets for decades – but in 1964-68-72, he was an Olympic sprinter for Trinidad and Tobago.  In 1964, he took a bronze in the 200 and another bronze in the 4×100 relay.  He added a 200-meter fourth in ’68,
So, your thoughts on this one, Edwin?
“Excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent.”
For sure, for sure, for sure, for sure.

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    One of the finest and most prolific writers in our sport, Elliott Denman has written about our sport since 1956, when he represented the US in 1956 Olympic Games at the 50k race walk, the longest event on the Olympic schedule. A close observer of the sport, Elliott writes about all of our sport, combining the skills of a well honed writer with the style of ee Cummings. We are quite fortunate to have Elliott Denman as a friend and advisor.

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