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Christine Brennan, USA Today:
Amna, we believe he’s doing OK. I mean, he’s going to be fine.
But who would have ever thought that, after two straight COVID Olympics, Tokyo Summer Games three years ago, Beijing 2.5 years ago, the Winter Olympics, that we would be talking about COVID here in Paris, something that people did not expect?
But he did come to the stadium with a mask on. He then, of course, took it off and raced and he won the bronze medal, and then, of course, collapsed. And we all found out very quickly what had happened and what was transpiring with him and his medical condition. He did not then run in the U.S. men’s 4×100 relay. You mentioned Sha’Carri Richardson leading the U.S. women to gold.
The U.S. men once again made a huge mistake. This seems to be a problem with the United States. The best sprinters in the world, the best men’s sprinters in the world, and the U.S. has not won a medal in the 4×100 relay since the 2004 Athens Games, so 20 years now of mistakes, dropping the baton, not passing it within the time frame that they have to, just a comedy of errors.
So, without Noah Lyles, the U.S. men failed to win a medal in that relay, and Noah Lyles’ Olympics is finished in obviously a very strange situation with the gold in the 100, as you said, but with that COVID diagnosis and certainly not performing as he had hoped in the 200.
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