Noah Lyles Aims for Historic Double at Paris Olympics

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00:00Uh, the next round for Lyles is to win the gold in the men's 200 meter race and if he doesn't win

00:07it would probably be the biggest shock of the Olympics because it's very rare to see a favorite

00:11like this and Lyles has just been so good, uh, Jacob, he's minus 390 here. So I, I, I guess I'm

00:17not going to ask you if he's going to win or not and I'm not going to ask you about this dude from

00:21Botswana who is going to win because you and I both know that this is you and me Googling to

00:26see who's going to win this thing outside of Noah. Uh, but what has he meant so far to Team USA? I

00:30think that's probably a better question to ask you. He's been huge for Team USA. I mean, the

00:36United States hadn't won the, uh, 100 meter dash in quite some time before he was able to do it

00:42and he did it in epic fashion really. Um, it was, it was him and the Jamaican runner he was going

00:47against really right down to the wire and he won by five thousandths of a second over Kashane

00:52Thompson. And it was just really a moment that a lot of Americans could celebrate. Team USA fans

00:59finally got to see Noah Lyles live up to the hype that he's kind of created for himself as well,

01:04uh, because he pretty much said that he was going to remember Thompson and some other

01:09runners beating him at times. I think Oblique, uh, uh, the, another Jamaican runner had a chance to

01:15beat him in the earlier rounds and he's just performed very well throughout. And now the 200

01:21meter event, he's called his baby. And as you mentioned, he's heavily favored to win this thing.

01:26If he can do that, he's going to be the first American man to pull off the so-called double

01:31to win the 100 meter and 200 meter dashes since Carl Lewis in 1984. So that's 40 years of history

01:38that we could be watching in the making right here. So it's going to be exciting to watch him

01:43either way, even with him very much favored to win this event.