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Noah Lyles

Noah Lyles
The latest news on Noah Lyles, American track and field sprinter and Olympian, including competition news and updates.
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis shone on the biggest stage again, setting his 14th pole vault world record this year. Photo: Xinhua
Year in Review

Year in athletics: Mondo Duplantis shines, the US enjoys a stellar year

Doping still lingers over the sport, with Kenyan and Russian athletes the biggest offenders.

World Athletics Championships

Tokyo world championships: Tebogo’s legs to ‘do the talking’ in Lyles showdown

Masterpieces

How the ladylike pearl of old is getting a bold new look

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

While you were sleeping: 200m gold, USA survive upset – a day 13 to remember

Serbia get within a whisker of stunning USA in men’s basketball, Noah Lyles has Covid, Pakistan pip India to javelin gold on a remarkable day 13.

Letsile Tebogo of Botswana celebrates winning gold in the men’s 200m. Photo: Reuters
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Lyles kept Covid secret to avoid giving ‘edge’ to rivals in Olympic 200m final

‘We were trying to get me on as much medication as we legally could,’ American says of decision to run after diagnosis on Tuesday.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Olympics: a Hongkonger, Noah Lyles, Wu Yanni – 5 things to know for day 13

This might be a day you want to set alarms, or take strategically timed naps, because it’s going to a long one, and there is plenty happening in the early hours you won’t want to miss.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

While you were sleeping: an 88-year curse broken, and China weightlifting gold

From an artistic swimming first, to an entirely predictable basketball result, here’s what happened overnight in Paris.

Hou Zhihui celebrates after winning the women’s 49kg weightlifting event. Photo: Xinhua
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Analysis | Doping, double standards and how TUEs muddy the waters of China row with the US

The accusations flung at China’s swimmers in Paris form part of a larger row between the world’s two superpowers.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Explainer | Why does Asia struggle to produce track stars, and what needs to change?

The absence of continental finalists from most of the athletics finals shows that Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian was very much an exception to the rule.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Opinion | Postcard from Paris: a speedy final and even quicker exit after men’s 100m

Even waiting to enjoy Noah Lyles’ victory meant battling 20,000 other people trying to get home.

Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson race for the line in the men’s 100m. Photo: Reuters
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

While you were sleeping: 5 things to know after Lyles, Pan speed to gold in Paris

Noah Lyles proves fastest in the men’s 100 metres on the track while four Chinese legs of 100m in the pool end an American monopoly.

Noah Lyles of the United States celebrates winning the men’s 100m final in Paris. Photo: EPA-EFE
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Olympics: Lyles wins men’s 100m after Djokovic, Fan golds – as it happened

Victory over Carlos Alcaraz gives Novak Djokovic the one prize he had never won, and Chinese Taipei retain badminton men’s doubles title.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Not such a lazy Sunday in Paris: 5 things to know for day 9 at the Olympics

The rivalry between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz is a good appetiser to the first among equals of Olympic events, the men’s 100m.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Olympics track and field schedule, key dates: all you need to know

The 48 events unfolding across track and field in Paris give the Chinese a chance to exceed their six medals at the last Games.

United States sprinter Noah Lyles is the world 100m and 200m champion and gunning for gold in Paris. Photo: AP
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Olympics’ 10 hottest athletes: the men and women as good as they look

A rundown of the competitors many people’s eyes will be on – and not just for their athletic skills that brought them to the French capital.

Japanese surfer Shino Matsuda is just one of the athletes making waves for their looks as well as their skills. Photo: Kyodo
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hongkongers urged to become 7 million-strong ‘cheerleading team’ for city’s Olympians

Vivian Kong leads the charge for Hong Kong delegation, with Cheung Ka-long and Siobhan Haughey also chasing medals in first five days.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Sprinter Diu aims for Hong Kong record after unexpected Paris Games spot

With no Hong Kong athlete having qualified for the Games, World Athletics gave the 24-year-old a ‘universality’ place set aside for under-represented nations.

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World Athletics Championships

Opinion | World Athletics Championships were roaring success, but we need to move forward

My experiences as an athlete at World Championships were not as much fun as they have been as president, now we need to modernise our sport.

Sebastian Coe becomes president of the World Athletics in 2015 ahead of the Budapest World Championship. Photo: Getty Images for Laureus
Fashion

POST EDIT: Omega My Choice watch campaign celebrates the modern woman

Omega is celebrating the modern woman with its new My Choice campaign that showcases the unique personalities of stars from the track, catwalk and silver screen.

World Athletics Championships

Sydney McLaughlin smashes 400m hurdles record to win gold

Sydney McLaughlin produced another astonishing run as she broke her own world record by almost three-quarters of a second to take 400m hurdles gold.

USA’s Sydney McLaughlin in action during the Women’s 400m Hurdles final. Photo: dpa
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