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Noah Lyles' psychologist played a key role in his mental preparation for the Paris Olympics.
Noah Lyles and his long-time psychologist Diana McNab have come a long way and she has been lucky to witness his transition and even contribute greatly to his success.
Ahead of the Paris Olympic Games, McNab had an idea of how they would plan things out but the COVID-19 set them back in how they would execute the 200m, but for the 100m, it was perfect.
In the build-up to the Paris Olympics, they came up with something like a script that would help Noah Lyles navigate the day from waking up to when he toes the line in at the Stade de France.
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They both believed that having such a plan helps produce great results and maybe it’s high time athletes embrace such since it worked in the triple world champion’s favour.
Since she was not in Paris, McNab called Lyles the night before his 100m race in Paris, and rang Zen chimes three times as the three-time world 200m champion did a breathing exercise and later visualized every aspect of the script.
“Always Zen chimes!” McNab said in a previous interview with Time.
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Going into the 100m final, Noah Lyles had already been beaten in the semifinal and many would expect his confidence to have gone lower but that was not it.
His psychologist had just done her magic and it was a matter of Lyles embracing every bit of it and the results would just come.
In a photo finish, the two-time Olympic 200m bronze medallist beat Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second before the sold-out Stade de France.
The American sprint king clocked a stunning 9.79 seconds ahead of Thompson who also clocked the same time. Fred Kerley rounded up the podium in 9.81 seconds.
One of the things Lyles was supposed to do on the morning of the race was imagine he had gone back to being 12 or 15 and was care free and having fun, just like children always do. After his warm up, Lyles was required to be very loose, like a “Raggedy Ann-Doll.”
Just before the race, Noah Lyles was supposed to observe the stadium and absorb the energy in the stadium, something he was denied in Tokyo due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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During the race, in the last 20m, he was required to be “flying down the track. No one can stop me. I am on fire. I have a God-given extra gear.”
He was supposed to have a personal best time upon crossing the finish line and shed off the pressure on his shoulders and that’s exactly what happened, he had done it, becoming the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the 100m since Justin Gatlin in 2004.
The only thing that never worked out as planned was that there was some bit of tension after the race as Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson eagerly waited for the judges to settle the photo finish.
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