Noah Lyles Suffers Major Setback Ahead of Atlanta City Games

Noah Lyles has continued to criticize Grand Slam Track . (Credit: Imago).

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Noah Lyles sheds light on injury that sidelined him from Atlanta City Games. (Credit: Imago).

Noah Lyles Suffers Major Setback Ahead of Atlanta City Games

Evans Ousuru 21:20 - 16.05.2025

Noah Lyles has suffered a big blow ahead of another grueling 2025 season.

Olympic champion Noah Lyles has suffered an early blow ahead of the Atlanta City Games.

The six-time World champion will not be part of the Games on Saturday after withdrawing from unspecified injury according to Essentially Sports.

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The showman guy was close to breaking Usain Bolt 150m record last year, missing by (0.06 seconds, to be exact).

Lyles dropped a blazing 14.41 seconds at the Atlanta City Games, the second-fastest ever, but still not enough to rewrite the record books. So close you could taste it, but history stays untouched.

But in 2025, the stage was set for another epic attempt to shatter Bolt’s 150m record—only for it to turn into a nightmare no one saw coming.

Even though he will show up in Atlanta, he won’t suit up to race.

That means with Noah Lyles sidelined, there are no American athletes left competing in this event, meaning Team USA won’t be winning any medals here.

The top contenders now are Zharnel Hughes from Great Britain, Alexander Ogando from the Dominican Republic, Ferdinand Omanyala from Kenya, and Terrence Jones from the Bahamas.

This was supposed to be his second race of the season, after his outdoor season opener at the Tom Jones Invitational in Gainesville, Florida, about a month prior, where he ran 45.87 seconds in the 400m, marking his first competitive 400m race since 2017.

Now, with this injury, Noah Lyles' 2025 season is already delayed before it gets going. Looking back, Noah’s outdoor season openers and early races have been pretty consistent since 2022, setting a pattern of building momentum early in the year.

In 2022, he raced twice before May: starting at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational (200m, 19.49s) and then at the Diamond League Meeting in Doha (200m, 19.72s).

In 2023, again two races before May—opening at the Tom Jones Memorial (100m, 10.01s) and then the Doha Diamond League (200m).

In 2024, Noah Lyles stepped it up with four early-season races: the Tom Jones Memorial (100m, 10.01s), Jamaica’s Racers Grand Prix (100m, 9.85s), the USATF Bermuda Grand Prix (100m, 9.96s), and the Atlanta City Games (150m, 14.99s).

But this year, 2025, Lyles only managed one race so far, the 400m at the Tom Jones Memorial, before this injury sidelined him.

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