Noah Lyles Stars As Top Pick for Team USA’s 4X100m Relay at Upcoming World Athletics Event

At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Noah Lyles was the anchor of the 4x100m relay team that won the gold. Now he leads the 2024 men’s roster for the same race. USATF recently announced the full team for the upcoming World Athletics Relays, which are scheduled from May 4-5 in the Bahamas. Noah Lyles sits at the top of this.

The Bahama Relays are of paramount importance since this will serve as the qualifying event for the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The list also features Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek whom Lyles just defeated at the Tom Jones Invitational.

Noah Lyles tops the USA roaster in men’s 4×100

Apart from that, reigning mixed 4×400 world champions Alexis Holmes, Matthew Boling, and Ryan Willie are joined in the longer relay pool by Olympic and world 4×400 gold medalists Bryce Deadmon and Chris Bailey, who earned gold in the heats of the men’s 4×400 at Budapest.

While the top 14 teams who will soar at the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 2024 will be automatically qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, Noah Lyles aims to go past his earlier personal bests this Olympic season. “That’s right. I want to do all that.. I just feel like every time I step up to a new challenge, my body responds to it.” , he lighted up while being interviewed by USA Today, and eyeing the Olympic quadruple in Paris.

Past juggles in the 4x100m relays

Noah Lyles had led his Team USA in the 4x100m dash at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, crossing the finish line in 37.38 seconds. Although he put his best foot forward for his team, the same glory could not be carried forward in the World Indoor Championship that kicked off on 1st March 2024. Noah Lyles and his team appeared in the 4x100m relay on the final 3rd day in Glasgow in the same championship and lost the gold to a silver with a 3:02:60 mark.

Fully disappointed by his overall performance, Noah Lyles does not want to let go off his golden chances to win over his four gold mission in the upcoming Olympic Games. For Lyles who is expanding his athletic repertoire to include the 400m in this year’s Olympics, it will encourage him to grab a relay spot and a shot at four golds on the track in Paris (100m, 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m). Serious to deliver his best, he  lately told the Reuters, “A lot of people thought I was just doing it for headlines. But, no. I’m full force going in.”

Thus, when it comes to this year’s sprinting events, Team USA’s early forecast could be considered to base on the previous results of the athlete in Budapest, and just not the defeat at Indoor Championships.