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As the Paris Olympics 2024 is inching close with breakneck speed, the US sprinting star, Noah Lyles is leveling up his aspirations to become the fastest man in history.  With three world championship titles in 2023, he intends to compete in multiple disciplines at Paris, including the 100m, 200m, and relays. He harbors the ambition to overcome Usain Bolt’s records in both the 100m and 200m categories.

And his trajectory has been promising. He has clinched his first world championship title in the 100m and is in third position in the all-time list in 200m while securing an indoor silver medal in the 60m. Analyzing the statistics of his performances, Lyles highlights how he has improved by over a percent in the 60 meters this year and requires only a 0.5% difference to break world records in 200m.

Noah Lyles aims to surpass Bolt in 200m

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The YouTube channel of USA Track and Field took to post an exclusive interview with Noah Lyles, in the episode titled Journey to Gold Zone Podcast featuring Noah Lyles from Glasgow24.” Noah Lyles discusses about the statistics and marginal differences that could help him break world records.

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Lyles has clocked his personal best at 19.31 seconds in the 200m, becoming the third fastest man in history. He just has a marginal difference to beat Bolt’s world record clocked at 19.19 sec, which Bolt set in 2009. Lyles remarks during the discussion about “how much of a percent difference do you need to break the world record to run 19.19 or run 19.18, and it was a 0.5 difference. That’s it. That’s all you need.” Lyles believes he is incredibly close to breaking Usain Bolt’s record, by achieving the 0.5 difference mark.

The spectacular growth of Lyles in 60m

Noah Lyles is enthusiastically building on his progress. During the past indoor season, he lowered his best 60m time to an impressive 6.43 seconds. Noah Lyles broke the 60m meeting record in Boston, finishing 0.05s ahead of Ronnie Baker in the heats and surged past Ackeem Blake to win the final. While Christian Coleman took victory over Noah Lyles in the world indoor 60m title race in Glasgow, his performance was nonetheless spectacular.

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Lyles has steadily improved his performance, as he dropped his personal best from 6.55 to 6.44, which accounts for his percentage difference improvement in the 60m realm. Noah Lyles is on the quest to prove his dominance in sprinting and is nonetheless ambitiously pursuing his goals for the same this Olympics season.

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