“Only Fact With No Personality”: Concerned Noah Lyles Addresses Raging Issue To Track and Field Community

Cheers erupted at the Nemzeti Atlétikai Központ stadium when Noah Lyles reached the 100m mark and clinched his first gold at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. However, the American sprinter didn’t stop there. He blazed through the victory in the 200m heat and clocked 19.52 seconds. Nevertheless, before entering the arena, Lyles was certain about his assertion when he posted, “I will run 9.65, 19.10.”

Doubling down on his bold claim, he stated, “I’m a firm believer in speaking things into existence” during a media press conference a day before the commencement of the 2023 World Athletics Championships. However, for Lyles, it was never a prediction, but a way of boosting his self-belief by saying out loud what his dreams are. Hence, when an intrigue came up about “why track fans don’t like early prediction,” Lyles took a moment to address his perspective.

On April 13th, in reply to the intrigue shared by Rori Dunk, Lyles stated, I have a feeling it is because there is not enough mixture of fact, opinion, and personality from the presentation. There are some people who use only fact with no personality. Others with all opinions and no facts. We need the right mixture of both in my opinion.”

The thread started when Michael Johnson took to his X handle to share his opinion on Trinidadian former track and field athlete, Ato Boldon’s “USA vs World Paris picks” for Paris Olympics. Johnson stated, “I agree except women’s 400 & 400h due to Sydney effect. Ato has her running 400 and losing! I have her running 400h and winning. He has Rai beating Karston over 400h. Tough one, but I don’t see it. Agree or disagree?” Following this, Lyles expressed his take on track and field predictions and answered the conjectures of his fandom.

However, back in August 2023, before setting his personal best in the 100m finals (9.83), Lyles cleared the air about the marks of 19.10 he has predicted he will run in the 200m and 9.65 in the 100m.

Noah Lyles’ manifestation mindset

A day before the commencement of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, when asked about his reasoning behind the 100m and 200m predictions, Lyles conceded, “I don’t have a problem with saying what my dreams are… If you don’t believe you’re going to run fast, you don’t believe in yourself.”

Sharing the reason behind what led to this mindset, the 26-year-old pulled off the curtains from his early childhood and added,

“I lived my whole life fighting. All my early years was just fighting to get out of hospital. After that it was just fighting to get out of school with dyslexia and ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), trying to find my own way, now fighting on the track.” Hence, the Threepeater credits the major chunk of his success to his manifestation mindset as it helps him boost his confidence by speaking things into existence.

Though he doesn’t favor track and field predictions but Noah Lyles is vocal about the things he believe in, don’t you agree?