[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"header-nav":3,"footer-nav":29,"article-lyles-979-100m-world-leading-us-championships":82,"category-counts-nav":98,"related-lyles-979-100m-world-leading-us-championships":108},[4,8,11,14,17,20,23,26],{"label":5,"to":6,"exact":7},"Home","\u002F",true,{"label":9,"to":10},"World Cup","\u002Fworldcup",{"label":12,"to":13},"Standings","\u002Fstandings",{"label":15,"to":16},"Football","\u002Fcategory\u002Ffootball",{"label":18,"to":19},"Basketball","\u002Fcategory\u002Fbasketball",{"label":21,"to":22},"Tennis","\u002Fcategory\u002Ftennis",{"label":24,"to":25},"F1","\u002Fcategory\u002Ff1",{"label":27,"to":28},"Long Reads","\u002Fcategory\u002Flong-reads",{"brand":30,"columns":32,"tagline":80,"copyright":81},{"description":31},"In-depth sports journalism covering football, basketball, tennis, F1, and beyond. 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All rights reserved.",{"title":83,"slug":84,"category":85,"badge":86,"author":87,"excerpt":88,"date":89,"readTime":90,"image":91,"imageAlt":83,"tags":92,"body":96,"_path":97},"Lyles Clocks 9.79 At US Trials, Projecting sub-9.75 Trajectory","lyles-979-100m-world-leading-us-championships","long-reads","Football: Feature","James Chen","Breakdown reaction from 9.78 to 9.79, Lyles' sprint parity and the performance implications for global sprinting.","2026-07-25 07:31:38","1 min read","https:\u002F\u002Fichef.bbci.co.uk\u002Face\u002Fstandard\u002F976\u002Fcpsprodpb\u002F8eb1\u002Flive\u002Fb4607c10-87f7-11f1-a7ab-8b30adf0800a.png",[93,94,95],"Athletics","Track and Field","US Championships","## World-Leading 9.79 At US Championships\n\nNoah Lyles won the US athletics championship 100m in 9.79 seconds, the fastest time of 2024. His career best remains 9.78, set at the 2023 Budapest World Championships. One one-hundredth separates his two fastest performances.\n\nThe 9.79 came at a domestic championship without global finals pressure. Two sub-9.80 runs within a single year, one on European track at Budapest and one on US soil, confirm his speed reproduces across contexts. That repetition matters more than the single time.\n\nLyles enters the Olympic period atop the season list. His technical consistency across domestic and international competition, plus a demonstrated capacity to peak on command, grounds his position as Olympic favorite.","\u002Farticles\u002Flyles-979-100m-world-leading-us-championships",[99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,85,107],"analysis","basketball","cricket","f1","football","general","golf","mma","tennis",[109,122,134],{"id":110,"stem":110,"path":111,"title":112,"category":85,"badge":113,"badgeType":114,"author":87,"authorRole":115,"authorInitials":116,"date":117,"readTime":118,"image":119,"imageAlt":112,"tags":120,"excerpt":121},"ela-letton-jones-wales-first-commonwealth-games-medal-para-swimming","\u002Farticles\u002Fela-letton-jones-wales-first-commonwealth-games-medal-para-swimming","Letton-Jones Delivers Wales' First Glasgow Medal in the Pool","Long Reads: Feature","category","Senior Football Analyst","JC","2026-07-24 18:51:39","2 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fela-letton-jones-wales-first-commonwealth-games-medal-para-swimming.webp","Commonwealth Games, Para-Swimming, Wales","Teenager Ela Letton-Jones opened Team Wales' Commonwealth Games account with a silver in para-swimming.",{"id":123,"stem":123,"path":124,"title":125,"category":85,"badge":15,"badgeType":114,"author":126,"authorRole":127,"authorInitials":128,"date":129,"readTime":130,"image":131,"imageAlt":125,"tags":132,"excerpt":133},"infantino-fourth-term-fifa-election-untouchable","\u002Farticles\u002Finfantino-fourth-term-fifa-election-untouchable","Why Infantino's FIFA Throne Remains Untouchable","Elena Rossi","SportPulse Contributor","ER","2026-07-19 19:17:50","6 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Finfantino-fourth-term-fifa-election-untouchable.webp","FIFA","Over 200 federations back Infantino for a fourth term despite scandals, exposing football's power structures as unstoppable.",{"id":135,"stem":135,"path":136,"title":137,"category":85,"badge":138,"badgeType":114,"author":139,"authorRole":140,"authorInitials":141,"date":142,"readTime":130,"image":143,"imageAlt":137,"tags":144,"excerpt":145},"garbrandt-ufc-retirement-support-mma-welfare","\u002Farticles\u002Fgarbrandt-ufc-retirement-support-mma-welfare","Garbrandt Demands UFC Rethink Fighter Retirement Support","Feature","Sarah Martinez","Transfer Correspondent","SM","2026-07-08 23:01:57","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fgarbrandt-ufc-retirement-support-mma-welfare.webp","UFC, MMA","Cody Garbrandt exposes the brutal void fighters face when the cage lights dim and the octagon doors close for good."]