Vintage Noah Lyles story No. 1: It’s courtesy of his mother, Keisha Bishop (no relation to me—but she is related to Noah), who recalls a morning last February, when Noah insisted on going to breakfast at Denny’s, then to the motorcycle store to buy a helmet. Keisha didn’t understand why, until the USATF Indoor Nationals in Albuquerque, when Noah walked in with a motorcycle helmet on. “Mom, you just don't get it. You don't get the vision,” Lyles told her. Keisha agreed—she did not get it. She just rolls with it.
How any one person views Noah Lyles will change this week, in Paris. His mother understands this, but she knows him. She knows that many will get things right about her son and others will get things so-so-so-so wrong.
