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Almost as soon as he crossed the finish line in the 200-meter dash on Thursday night, Noah Lyles looked winded. He lay on his back on the purple track at Stade de France, after finishing third in a race he had dominated for the last three years, and struggled for breath.
Four days after winning a gold medal in one of the most thrilling endings to an Olympic sprint, Lyles took the bronze in the 200 and considered it, he said afterward, a remarkable achievement.