Noah Lyles makes his first Olympic team with dominant 200 meters victory

Lyles underwent physical travails this year, which he detailed Sunday night. Early this year, the massage therapist Lyles has worked with since he turned professional, whom he counts among his best friends, came down with an illness. Just as Lyles began the hardest training of his career, she had to take leave. He felt achy and sore at practice. He ran slower times than expected. At one point, his brother Josephus, a runner who qualified for the 200 semifinal, asked him, “Why are you so afraid to run?”