Noah Lyles, Kenny Bednarek: How the Race played out
It was a final that Bednarek seemed to have when the men finish the bend of the first 100, the double Olympic silver medal winner in the 200 rising lyles in the track above him halfway through the race.
But Lyles said he never panicked and started to chip on the shortage to go by about 80 meters.
“When we came from the turn and I saw how far Kenny was, I thought:” As long as I can keep it in my pocket, I can catch him right away, “Lyles said.” When we passed the 60 meters [to go] Mark, I had something like: “Yes, I’m coming for him.” He no longer had energy; Hot out without momentum. “
It has since been the first major head-to-head encounter between the two sprinting powerhouses Paris 2024Then Bednarek claimed silver and lyles bronze.
How did the victory for lyles felt on this day?
“It felt really good,” he said, in a big smile. “Because if you are not going to beat me now, you never beaten me.”
Lyles did not raced between mid -April and early July and was about an injury when Bednarek put together an undefeated season that led to the American championships.
It is a mental victory, Lyles said too, because this season he had confronted the adversity of the track that he has.
“I still know how to get up for it,” he said about his Race Takeway. “It’s coming; it’s just going to take time. I think I have to take the mindset of:” If this takes me all the way to the first round of Tokyo [for Worlds]To get it, “then be it.”
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