{"id":23131,"date":"2024-08-09T01:11:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=465509"},"modified":"2024-08-09T01:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:41:16","slug":"after-winning-bronze-medal-in-200m-event-us-track-and-field-confirms-noah-lyles-is-covid-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/after-winning-bronze-medal-in-200m-event-us-track-and-field-confirms-noah-lyles-is-covid-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"After winning bronze medal in 200m event US Track and Field confirms Noah Lyles is Covid positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles has revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19 just two days before his bronze medal performance in the men\u2019s 200m final at the Paris 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Lyles, who was aiming for a historic 100m-200m double, faced a significant challenge after his diagnosis. Despite the setback, he managed to secure a bronze medal in a race that was ultimately won by Botswana\u2019s Letsile Tebogo.<\/p>\n<h4>Lyles Shares His Experience<\/h4>\n<p>In an interview with NBC, Lyles opened up about his experience leading up to the final. \u201cI woke up early, about 5:00 am on Tuesday, feeling really horrible,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew it was more than just being sore from the 100 metres. We woke up the doctors and we tested, and unfortunately, it came up that I was positive for COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite feeling unwell, Lyles pushed through the race but was visibly affected, requiring a wheelchair to leave the track after the 200m final. He acknowledged that the illness had taken a toll on his performance.<\/p>\n<h4>Impact on Lyles\u2019 Performance<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>COVID-19 Diagnosis<\/strong>: Tested positive two days before the 200m final.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Physical Strain<\/strong>: Felt severe symptoms and fatigue leading up to the race.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Final Outcome<\/strong>: Managed to win bronze despite the setback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles has revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19 just two days before his bronze medal\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}