The next round for Lyles is to win the gold
in the men's 200m race.
And if he doesn't win,
it would probably be the biggest shock of the Olympics
because it's very rare to see a favorite like this.
And Lyles has just been so good.
Jacob, he's -390 here. So I guess I'm not going
to ask you if he's going to win or not.
And I'm not going to ask you about this dude
from Botswana who is going to win,
because you and I both know that this is you
and me Googling to see who's going to win this
thing outside of Noah.
But what has he meant so far to Team USAI?
Think that's. Probably a better question to ask you.
He's been huge for Team USA.
I mean, the United States hadn't won the 100 meter
dash in quite some time before he was able to
do it.
And he did it in an epic fashion.
Really. It was him and the Jamaican runner he was
going against really right down to the wire.
And he won by 5 thousandths of a second over
Cashew and Thompson.
And it it was just really a moment that a
lot of Americans could celebrate.
Team USA fans finally got to see Noah Lyles live
up to the hype that.
Kind of created for himself as well because he pretty
much said that he was going to remember Thompson and
some other runners beating him at times.
I think oblique, the another Jamaican runner had a chance
to beat him in the earlier rounds and he's just
performed very well throughout.
And now the 200 meter event,
he's called his baby. And as you mentioned,
he's heavily favored to win this thing.
If he can do that,
he's going to be the first American man to pull
off the so-called double to win the 100m.
100 meter dashes since Carl Lewis in 1984.
So that's 40 years of history that we could be
watching in the making right here.
So it's going to be exciting to watch him either
way,
even with him very much favored to win this event.