| | | Noah Lyles wins 200m bronze; COVID diagnosis revealed after race
Moments after he finished in third place during Thursday night's 200-meter Olympics final, American sprinter Noah Lyles told reporters he ran the race with COVID-19, after having been diagnosed with the illness two days earlier.
"I tested positive around 5 a.m. Tuesday morning," Lyles said, wearing a black KN95 mask inside the media mixed zone. "I woke up in the middle of the night just feeling really chills, aching, sore throat.
"And those were kind of a lot of the symptoms I've always had right before getting COVID, and I was just like, 'I need to test this one.'"
The moment the test came back positive, Lyles left the Olympic Village and was quarantined at a nearby hotel, he said. He also said he was administered whatever medications he could legally take without causing problems during postrace drug testing. Paxlovid was among the medications he took, a USA Track & Field spokesperson confirmed.
"I still wanted to run; they said it was still possible," Lyles said. "So we just stayed away from everybody and just tried to take it round by round. And to be honest, I knew if I wanted to come out here and win, I had to give everything I had from the get-go. I didn't have any time to save energy."
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