U.S. Noah Lyles celebrates after profitable the boys’s 100m within the Diamond League in London on July 20, 2024.
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Noah Lyles set himself up completely for the Paris Olympics by haring to a private greatest in profitable the 100m at July 20 Diamond League assembly.
Within the final dash earlier than the Olympics, Lyles was fast out of his blocks and tore down the observe at London Stadium to win in 9.81 seconds.
As soon as the American, who received the 100-200m golds on the Budapest world championships final yr, bought going, there was little doubt he would win.
South African Akani Simbine timed a season’s better of 9.85sec in second, whereas Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo rounded out the rostrum in 9.88sec to match his personal nationwide file.
British champion Louie Hinchliffe, the winner of this season’s NCAA championships, was fourth in 9.97sec, whereas Zharnel Hughes needed to be content material with sixth (10.00) behind Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake (9.97).
Hughes, who received bronze behind Lyles in Hungary, co-stars alongside the American within the Netflix docu-series “Dash”, however stated pre-race that he hadn’t realised how a lot his US rival talked about him.
Hughes had vowed to silence Lyles’ “unfastened mouth”, however was by no means in rivalry because the American ripped away for victory in entrance of 58,000 followers on the stadium used for the 2012 Olympics and now dwelling to Premier League membership West Ham United.