Noah Lyles has been a force to be reckoned with in the athletics domain for the past few years. He used to be considered one of the best 200-meter runners in the initial stages of his career, but later in the day, Lyles left no stone unturned in the 100-meter discipline as well. Apart from being one of the most dominant track and field athletes currently, the reigning world champion in both individual domains is also recognized for expressing his thoughts on matters he deems important.

Along similar lines, the Gainesville native has once again grabbed the top spot in the athletic headlines for speaking candidly about his counterparts who were convicted of doping charges. While his eyes are set on breaking their records, the Olympic medalist had quite a few statements to make.

Noah Lyles strikes again with his gift of the gab

On Friday, the Florida-based runner was featured on USA Track and Field’s Journey to Gold Zone Podcast, where he opened up about his career and spoke about his future endeavors. While he was indulged in the conversation about running sub-19 in 200 meters and his coach Lance Brauman having belief in him and how it is hard for him to see the 18 seconds, then Lyles jumped on the world’s fastest 100-meter list and gave an unfiltered statement.

“If you look at the all-time list, especially in the 100, I believe the top five time besides (Usain) Bolt has all been busted for some type of ban. Whether they were doing it or not, you know can’t be said. You know, some of them actually do have records, but some of them are just miss tests,” he stated.

He also added that the more people focus on that “18 seconds,” the more it becomes an unachievable target, but on the contrary, he said that records are meant to be broken, and he always had the idea of breaking them and stated, “I wanted it to be me.” Noah Lyles kept going with his breaking the world record thing and provided a technical breakdown on the same.

When a champion speaks, ears perk up

Displaying self-belief, he said that he had faith in him and was aware that he could break the record. He delved into the technicalities of it and stated, “We had a meeting about three weeks ago, and we were talking about a percentage difference. He said, How much percentage difference do you need to break the world record to run 19.19 or run 19.18 and it was point zero five difference,” he added.

He added that it might sound like a minimal difference, but when one gets closer to it, it tends to keep getting tougher with each attempt. The margin of error becomes very small while attempting to get there, he concluded. With all that in place, the question looms: can he surpass Usain Bolt’s legendary 19.19 second world record at the forthcoming Paris Olympics? Only time will tell.

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