Lyles was seen leaving the men's 200-meter final in a wheelchair on Thursday.
Lyles ran a 19.70 in the final, good enough for a bronze medal finish behind Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and Team USA’s Kenny Bednarek .
After the race, Lyles was seen immediately gesturing for water before sitting down on the track for an extended period of time as he visibly struggled with his breathing. Medical personnel came to his aid, and Lyles left the track at Stade de France in a wheelchair shortly after.Noah Lyles left the track in a wheelchair after the men’s 200m final where he got bronze. And now, USA Track and Field has confirmed he ran the race with Covid.
“I woke up early, about 5 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and I was feeling really horrible,” Lyles said. “I knew it was more than just being sore from the 100, woke up the doctors, and we tested, and unfortunately it came up that I was positive for COVID. My first thought was not to panic, thinking I’ve been in worse situations, I’ve run with worse conditions, and we just took it day by day, trying to hydrate, quarantined off.
Lyles previously won gold in the men’s 100-meter final in the Paris Games and will have another chance to win a gold medal in the men’s 4x100 relay on Friday, should he participate. “At the moment, I don’t know,” Lyles said of his relay availability. “I’m feeling more on the side of letting Team USA do their thing.”Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site.
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