Olympics

IAN HERBERT AT THE STADE DE FRANCE: He arrived in this place like a meteor, entering the arena even before his name had been called, jumping up and down the track like a man possessed. The others readied themselves and tried to still their beating hearts. Noah Lyles just twirled his arms around, whipping up the audience. The problem with an entry like that - an entry transcending anything we had even seen from the master of theatre Usain Bolt - is the potential for hubris. Lyles has been talking himself up for so long that he had built a tower of pressure on himself, stretching up to the blue Paris sky. And for a very long time, by the standards of this race of all races, it seemed to be crashing right down on his head....read