A mishap at the Inspiration Games offered a welcome reminder of the random moments that athletics can provide us
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.This week, for the first time in what seems like a very long time, something funny happened in sports.
On Thursday, they ran the men’s 200-metre sprint. The guy to watch was Noah Lyles, a 22-year-old American you’ve probably never heard of. He is the current world champion at this distance. If you’re going to break an unbreakable world record, you don’t want to do it on a high-school track in Florida with a few dozen people in attendance.That’s what Lyles had apparently done. Not just beaten Usain Bolt’s mark of 19.19, but shattered it by nearly a third of a second. At this point in athletic history, that’s like cutting a minute off the four-minute mile.
Through no particular fault of his own, Lyles may now be the most famous sprinter at work. Who among us will not be rooting for him next year? Those moments had gone away temporarily. First, when COVID-19 put an end to sports altogether. Second, when sports began to return and all we could talk about was how many people they might end up killing.For a while now, sports have been a total drag. Whether it’s Major League Baseball attempting to shoot off both its feet, Novak Djokovic doing his Dr. Nick Riviera impression or DeSean Jackson quoting Hitler , sports have been plenty funny. Just not fun funny. Shake-your-head funny.
This doesn’t make the pros awful in any unique way, or even awful at all. This is just what happens when you put celebrity in a vacuum. It attempts to fill it, often mindlessly.
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