Athletes at the Olympics are showering Noah Lyles with that first big taste of celebrity he’s been working so hard to make his own.
Discover incredible Insider Deals that will make your life a little bit easier Noah Lyles , right, of the United States poses for photos while traveling along the Seine River in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics , Friday, July 26, 2024. Nearly a week into this brush with fame — at least inside the athletes village — he's not so sure he's loving the spotlight.“I’m struggling with my mental,” Lyles conceded at the U.S.
That's not as much in his control at the living quarters for some of the 14,000 athletes and sports officials who are camping out in Paris over these 17 days.“It has come with its own challenge of finding my own safe place,” he said. “I don't want to leave. But I feel like after these Olympics, I'm going to have to have conversations higher up than me in making that more available. ... I'm not even the most popular person in the village.
“I just remember being so, ‘This is not it. This is not fun. This is not cool. This is not what I wanted. This is not what I thought it was going to feel like,’” he said of the moments before his 200-meter final in Tokyo, where he won the bronze medal. “And that's literally the last few thoughts I had going through my mind as I got into the blocks. And it sucked.”
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