Even below the climate, Noah Lyles introduced dwelling one other medal for Team USA.

After the 27-year-old completed in third place in the boys’s 200-meter ultimate, he dropped to the observe the place he gave the impression to be taking gasping breaths earlier than mendacity on his again. Medics quickly helped him off the observe in a wheelchair, with a Paris Olympics spokesperson telling NBC News Noah had been unable to stroll on his personal following his efforts.

However, his mom Keisha Cane Bishop, who was cheering him on on the race, shortly gave perception into his situation, telling NBC Sports’ Lewis Johnson that her son had been identified with COVID-19 two days earlier than his ultimate.

The Team USA star—who has already received a gold medal in the boys’s 100-meter race—later spoke to his well being.

“I woke up early, about 5am on Tuesday morning,” he instructed Lewis in the course of the broadcast by way of a masks, “and I was just feeling really horrible and I knew it was more than just being sore from the 100. Woke up the doctors and we tested, and unfortunately it came up that it was positive for COVID.”