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    'I was freaking scared': How sprinter Noah Lyles shook off doubt in return to record form

    by Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times Dec 08, 2022 6 minutes
    U.S. athlete Noah Lyles celebrates after victory in the men's 200 m final during the Diamond League athletics meeting at Stadion Letzigrund stadium in Zurich on Sept. 8, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — Ever since Noah Lyles broke the American 200-meter record at July's world track and field championships, the 25-year-old sprinter has rewatched numerous times his 19.31-second, runaway victory and his celebration that followed.

    Just not for the reason you might expect.

    Lyles likes reliving the celebration, of course. The moment he realized he had edged Michael Johnson's iconic 26-year-old record by 0.01, Lyles tore off the top half of his United States speedsuit in front of a raucous Eugene, Ore., crowd and unleashed a yell that had been seemingly pent up inside him for 11 months, when disappointment at the Tokyo Olympics gave way to depression and doubt.

    "It lit that fire," he said in an interview. "Seeing the results of that at Oregon was writing the perfect end to a story."

    Yet when Lyles looks at one angle of last July's full-flex celebration in Eugene, he fixates on what isn't perfect. Specifically, that the muscles on one

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