The world 100m champion, Noah Lyles, appeared on The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon on Monday night time to debate his position within the upcoming Netflix documentary sequence “Dash” and his targets for the Paris Olympics. Lyles confidently acknowledged his ambition to attain one thing no male monitor and area athlete has performed earlier than: win 4 gold medals at a single Olympics.
“Everybody is aware of Usain Bolt; I wish to be quicker and extra adorned than Bolt,” Lyles advised Jimmy Fallon. “He’s performed three. I would like 4, that’s the Mount Rushmore–now you’re the best of the nice.”
On the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Lyles turned the primary athlete to win the dash double (100m and 200m) at a serious championship since Bolt did so at Rio 2016. He added one other gold medal within the males’s 4x100m, the place Workforce USA redeemed themselves after ending second to Canada in 2022 on house soil.
Solely two athletes have received 4 medals at one Olympic Video games: U.S. dash icon Florence Griffith-Joyner received three golds and one silver medal (within the 4x400m) at Seoul in 1988. Fanny Blankers-Koen of The Netherlands is the one athlete to win 4 golds–on the 1948 Olympics in London, the place she received the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, and 80m hurdles.
When Fallon requested Lyles why he wished to place further strain on himself for Paris, Lyles stated his purpose is to win Olympic medals and break world data. “It’s been a very long time since somebody has performed it, however rising up, I’ve all the time felt like that title belongs to me.” Bolt’s world data of 9.58 within the 100m, and 19.19 within the 200m have been untouched for the previous 15 years.
Regardless of being the world champion within the 100m and 200m, Lyles’s first check will come on the USATF Olympic Trials from July 21-30 in Eugene, Ore., the place he’ll purpose to make his second Olympic group. The highest three finishers in every occasion at trials will safe a spot on the U.S. Olympic group, supplied they’ve met the Olympic normal or are within the World Athletics rankings quota.
