In case you thought Noah Lyles’s 2023 was amazing, hold up till you listen what track and field’s greatest star has arranged for the Olympic year.
After laying down an early marker for 2024 by winning the 60m at the Modern Adjust Indoor Fantastic Prix in 6.44sec – a individual best by 0.07sec and the speediest time of the year, the American at that point set his sights towards the stratosphere.
“I didn’t know I was in that great shape,” said Lyles, after beating the Jamaican Ackeem Blake by 0.01sec. “World lead, meet record. Presently let’s go out there and get a world indoor award in Glasgow.”
But that isn’t the constrain of his aspiration. “Last year I went out there and won three gold medals,” he at that point clarified. “This year I need to urge four. And in case I do not get four, I am going after three world records.”
And yes, which means going after Usain Bolt’s 100m and 200m world records, as well as Jamaica’s within the 4x100m. But he is resolute. “If I do not succeed, I will attempt, attempt, attempt again,” he included.
The signs exterior the field carried a stark message:
The street to Paris begins in Boston. And for Britain’s Jake Wightman that was more genuine than most.
The 2022 world 1500m winner had not dashed for 13 months since a crack foot damage and arrived in Boston looking for triumph and the Olympic qualifying time of 3min 33.50sec.
But he fell excruciatingly near on both tallies as he wrapped up moment to youthful US star Hobbs Kessler, who came domestic in 3:33.36.
Wightman’s time of 3:34.06 was an indoor individual best, but he conceded he was disillusioned. “It’s not the finest result for me, but you’ve got to begin somewhere,” he included.
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