EUGENE, Ore. — But for a scrolling thumb, the world's fastest teenager was, for once, unmoving.
Erriyon Knighton had just slipped out of a late-May news conference here into an empty adjoining hotel conference space, where he settled into a director's chair, slouching in Adidas athleisure. Since his fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics in the 200 meters at just 17, then running 19.49 seconds, the fourth-fastest time ever over the distance in February, at just 18, Knighton had grown used to questions that are a variation on a theme — what is it like to be this fast, this young?
Asked how he would interview himself, he looked up from his phone in the quiet room with an interested grin.
