{"id":3496,"date":"2024-08-09T18:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:58:54","slug":"noah-lyles-tested-postive-for-covid-before-winning-bronze-in-the-200m-final-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3496","title":{"rendered":"Noah Lyles tested postive for COVID before winning bronze in the 200m final at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\"><strong>Noah Lyles was beaten in the 200m at the Paris Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>It has been revealed that Noah Lyles is suffering from COVID after he only managed a bronze medal in the 200m final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On Thursday night, the men\u2019s 200m took centre stage as Lyles looked to win a sprint double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The American won gold in the 100m earlier in the week beating Jamaica\u2019s Kishane Thompson and USA teammate Fred Kerley.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-inside\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">However, Lyles ended up finishing in third place behind USA teammate Kenny Bednarek and Botswana\u2019s Letsile Tebogo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_9_host\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Tebogo\u2019s victory meant he won his country\u2019s first-ever gold medal at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">During the aftermath of the race, four-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson said: \u201cHe certainly isn\u2019t carrying an injury because you can\u2019t do this with an injury, you can\u2019t run 19.70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cIf there\u2019s anything, there\u2019s some sort of illness that has zapped his energy from the ability to actually carry that speed all the way through.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">19.45 \ud83d\ude80\ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>Botswana&#8217;s Letsile Tebogo is the men&#8217;s 200m Olympic champion! He wins his nation&#8217;s first EVER Olympic gold. \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Noah Lyles has to settle for the bronze medal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BBCOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3sFKcMgF1R\">pic.twitter.com\/3sFKcMgF1R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1821617619184521538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">After Johnson\u2019s comments, it was revealed by BBC presenter Gabby Logan that Lyles was in fact suffering from COVID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On Lyles\u2019 COVID diagnostic, Johnson said: \u201c[The medics] would\u2019ve given him the OK to race, he\u2019s probably not in danger of anything by racing other than being 100 per cent and able to perform the way that he would want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On commentary, two-time world champion hurdler Colin Jackson was full of praise for the winner Tebogo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He said: \u201cLook how easy and relaxed he looks, so controlled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cHe most probably at this stage looking into the big screen in front of him and going \u2018well there\u2019s nobody around me, this is my gold medal\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Fellow commentator Andrew Cotter added: \u201cA man who is not just running for himself, Letsile Tebogo, but running for his mother who died a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cHe said he is going to do this for her. 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