’Chasing Gold,’ a comic book of Noah Lyles’s Olympic journey

The very best athletes on the planet will collect in Tokyo this summer season, hoping to etch their names within the Olympic file books. For observe star Noah Lyles, it’s a convergence of passions. The 2019 world champion is a favourite for the medals podium, having posted the 12 months’s quickest 200-meter time on the U.S. Olympic observe and area trials. Off the observe, Lyles is as colourful as he’s considerate. The 24-year-old Alexandria native is a connoisseur of anime and manga, Japan’s fashionable types of storytelling, utilized for fiction and nonfiction alike. For “Chasing Gold,” Washington Put up reporters interviewed Lyles and the individuals round him. Scenes replicate the themes’ recollections and different reporting, although some dialogue has been edited for size, readability and elegance.