From challenging start to the tops of sport
While both Lyles and Tebogo are now at the height of their sport, The mountains that they climbed to get there are not easy to cross.
“I have asthma, allergies, dyslexia, ADD, fear and depression,” wrote Lyles last year on a message on X. “But I will tell you that what you have does not define what you can be. Why not!”
Tebogo’s own trip to the top saw him train without conventional athletics equipment, Even without going new running shoes until he broke the National 100M record.
“I always trained without shoes,” he NBC told. “Shoes were more expensive and we could not afford that because we lived with our extensive family, so it was difficult for us to get things.”
More recently, just a few months before the 2024 Olympic Games, Tebogo tragically lost his mother.
“The first few days or a few weeks after my mother died, SuperDifficult were for me because I thought it was the end of the world, the end of my career, the end of everything I tried to achieve,” ” Thanksgiving While he opened his loss.
Although the challenges for both athletes sometimes seemed insurmountable, their growth on the athletics track seemed proof of their character as champions.
And although their personalities may seem just as different as fire and ice, the fast -growing rivalry between them remains one of the most exciting and interesting duels in sport, while the battle for global sprint supremation continues.
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