TOKYO — Noah Lyles, the American sprinting star, was less than an hour removed from racing to a bronze medal in the men’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Games on Wednesday when he opened up about his mental health and the challenges he had faced over the past year. He spoke about dealing with depression. And he cried as he spoke about his younger brother, Josephus, whose own Olympic dream as a professional runner currently lives through Noah because he didn’t make the Olympic team. “Sometimes I think to myself, this should be him,” Noah Lyles said through tears. For Lyles and many others competing in Tokyo, the Olympics have doubled as a sort of catharsis.

Source: New York Times August 04, 2021 17:37 UTC