Overview

• Noah Lyles clocked 19.88 seconds to edge Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo, who finished in 19.97, in Friday’s Monaco Diamond League 200m.
• The race marked Lyles’s first 200m competition in nearly a year after he recovered from inflammation in his ankle and tendon.
• Tebogo’s unbeaten track record in the Diamond League 200m this season ended after he said an early call room summons disrupted his warm-up routine.
• Lyles confirmed that his joint inflammation has cleared following two weeks of intensive training and plans to race the 100m in London next week.
• Both sprinters will now fine-tune their preparation for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this September.