United States sprinter Noah Lyles easily won his heat in the men’s 100m race on Sunday at Tokyo’s World Championships, finishing in 9.95 seconds.
But he sees room for improvement.
“I really liked that start. I feel like I was open,” he said on the NBC broadcast after the win. “But I’ve had better ones in practice. I know that getting this first one, this first day out of the way, wakes my body up and says, ‘Let’s go even harder tomorrow.’ So that’s gonna be our idea. Not stressing it, but just saying, ‘Hey, turn up the notch, and then break it off.'”
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