Sounds rap where reggae and dancehall sounded before. Bob Marley's One Love is now Humble by Kendrick Lamar . Everything is flow, bases, there are no longer hot steps.
Athletics guesses a new king, Noah Lyles , and as he did with Usain Bolt adapts to him, his character, his things. The American appears on the plaid and the camera already pursues him: he raises both arms, extends the palms of his hand and imitates the Genki Ball that Son Goku made. Soon it will take to accelerate, but it will explode in the straight line and will prevail in the 200 meters (19.83 seconds) ahead of the Canadian André De Grasse and the Ecuadorian Alex Quiñónez . There was restlessness in the curve, after its bad exit, although it was resolved as soon as it unfolded its stride. At 22, Lyles already amazes and, although the world record is still far away (19.19), he promises many nights of vertigo and spectacle. "Before the World Cup I was watching old Bolt videos and I liked how he had more fun than how he ran," said Lyles, which is, what should be, the future.
Spotted Christian Coleman , the 100 meter champion, his countryman is hope for the audience, oxygen for the sponsors. Like Bolt, Lyles is a charismatic guy, able to appear in the World Cup with white-dyed hair, with an expansive attitude. Beyond its beginnings, at age 12, from rhythmic gymnastics, its history is in the loft of the house that it shares with his brother Josephus - 400 meter runner, the person in charge of cooking - in Clermont, Florida. There he paints, designs his own socks - with images of Dragon Ball, Speed Racer or Star Wars -, accumulates Lego pieces and rapps, even has a recording studio.
“It has been a very long season, with some pains, but I have been able to come here and have fun, continue to have fun. I want people to follow my steps for years to come, ”he claimed yesterday after much waiting for his first big moment. At the London World Cup 2017 he could not go due to injury and stayed out of the 2016 Rio Games, his first absolute goal, for very little: in the 200 meters of the American Trials, which divided three places, he was fourth. This season Lyles made a better mark than yesterday at the meeting in Luisana (19.50), where he became the fourth fastest man in about 200 meters behind Bolt, Johann Blake and Michael Johnson , and promised that in the future he will look for the record .
At the moment, the music of athletics has changed, which warns in it a new king.
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