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Noah Lyles captures sprint double at world track championships

USA's Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the men's 200 m final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on Aug. 25, 2023.

Some athletes reveal their ambitions carefully. Noah Lyles is not one of them.

The 26-year-old American sprinter has never been shy about his personal expectations to win titles and break records, even those set by the incomparable Usain Bolt.

Lyles accomplished Friday what no sprinter since Bolt had done, seven years ago, by winning both the 100- and 200-meter sprints at track and field’s world championship in Budapest, Hungary. Four days after claiming 100-meter gold, and the unofficial title as

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