Working your entire life for the opportunity to achieve the only thing you've ever wanted and then achieving that has to be the sweetest feeling imaginable. The sacrifices you made, the friendships you lost, the outings you missed. It all becomes the stepping stones that were just your path to greatness. Thats what 100m Gold Medalist Noah Lyles is feeling a few days removed from winning our first gold medal in the 100m in over 20 years.
Noah won one of the greatest Olympic races of my lifetime over the weekend beating out Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by a fifth of a second (.005). The entire stadium thought they had seen Thompson cross the finish line first but one person knew, one person had the body language of a champion and that was Noah Lyles. His head never dipped but he wasn't just staring at the screen to see if he had won. Noah looked calm, Noah looked as if he had walked into a classroom of his peers that were waiting on test results to an exam he knew he had the answers for.
After it was made official, Noah celebrated and his mother (rightfully so) lost herself with excitement seeing her child, the one she had made her own sacrifices for, the one she had been there for when he had moments of doubt, the one she held when he cried and the one she made get back up every time was forever an olympic gold medalist and had achieved his greatest dream. Congrats to the Fastest Man on the planet. You are a champion
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