The US men failed to win an individual gold for the first time ever at a fully attended Olympics. What went wrong?
When Noah Lyles finished third in the 200m final this week, he called his hardware “boring”. When Grant Holloway took silver in the 110m hurdles, he repeatedly used the word “sucks” with reporters after the race.
Both men seemed glum, disappointed. They’d lost. They’d failed. Never mind that Lyles’s time was the fastest he’s run all season, that only 16 men have ever finished the race faster than he did this week. And we should totally disregard the fact that Holloway’s finish was all of 50 milliseconds slower than the gold medal time.
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