US Olympic sprint star Noah Lyles tests positive for Covid

Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles said Thursday he tested positive two days before his bronze medal-winning performance in the men’s 200m final.

Lyles, who had been bidding to complete a 100m-200m double in Paris, was taken off the track in a wheelchair following the men’s 200m final, won by Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo.

The 27-year-old American, who has suffered from asthma in the past, had been seen wearing a surgical mask shortly before Thursday’s 200m final.