Atlanta Metropolis Video games 2024: Will Noah Lyles Lastly Break Usain Bolt’s 150m Report?

Noah Lyles, the 2023 “3 Peat” World Champion, is on a ‘Dash quadruple’ intention this Olympic 12 months. The 27-year-old desires of operating a lot of the distances—100m, 200m, 60m, and even the 4x400m—and clinching all of the gold medals. Aside from aiming for medals, Noah Lyles can also be decided to interrupt Jamaica’s Usain Bolt’s 100m and 200m world data, which he has been chasing for some time.

Whereas he has gotten the green signal from Lightning Bolt for these data, there may be another accolade of the quickest man ever that Noah Lyles has been concentrating on, and that’s the 150m. Because the Olympic 12 months unfolds and Noah Lyles is gearing up for his outside season, a possibility has come within the type of the Atlanta Metropolis Video games 2024, and the query is: will Noah Lyles lastly break Usain Bolt’s 150-meter report?

Noah Lyles and USA observe stars gear up for the Atlanta Metropolis Video games 2024

In accordance with a put up on X by CitiusMag, race organizers for the Atlanta Metropolis Video games 2024 have rolled out the checklist of races observe stars who’re set to run. Noah Lyles will probably be operating the 150-meter males’s occasion after a blazing efficiency final 12 months. Grant Holloway, the hurdles titan, will defend his 110-meter hurdles title, which he received final 12 months.

And lastly, the put up acknowledged that Anna Corridor will compete within the 100-meter hurdles and lengthy leap. As we replicate on this chance to see the USA observe stars, let’s discover out extra particulars of the race and the way Noah Lyles might surpass the 150-meter report set by Usain Bolt.

How shut is Lyles to surpassing Usain Bolt within the 150m?

The Adidas Video games, formally often called the Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games, are an annual observe and area assembly. The occasion was initially held in Boston from 2016 to 2021, however was later relocated to Atlanta Metropolis in 2023. Final 12 months, in 2023, Noah Lyles took the race by storm and beat Erriyon Knighton within the 150-meter dash, clocking a trailblazing 14.56 seconds on the Centennial Olympic Park. Knighton clocked in 14.85, whereas Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala got here in third with 14.89.

Noah Lyles’ time put him third on the all-time checklist, solely behind Usain Bolt at 14.35 within the primary spot and Tyson Homosexual at 14.41, who’s in second place over the gap. This 12 months, Atlanta, Georgia, will host the Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games  2024 on Saturday, Might 18, at The Meadow, Piedmont Park, in Atlanta. And with a month left till the occasion, followers await to see if Lyles can break Usain Bolt’s report forward of the Paris Olympics in 2024. Will he be capable to obtain the feat? Share your ideas beneath!