COVID-Positive Noah Lyles Wheeled Off the Track After Winning Bronze

American sprinter Noah Lyles revealed he ran in Thursday’s 200-meter Olympic race—and placed third—despite testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this week.

After crossing the finish line behind Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and Team USA’s Kenneth Bednarek, Lyles immediately laid down on the track. The 27-year-old athlete, who remained fully conscious, had to be helped off the track in a wheelchair by medical personnel, and was taken to a medical holding area.

Wearing a black medical mask, he told Olympic broadcaster NBC News that he was “quite lightheaded after that race, and shortness of breath and chest pains were definitely active.

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