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\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tAs Team USA takes on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the American athletes have already made an impression at the summer Games. The 2024 Olympics kicked off on Friday, July 26, with an illustrious opening ceremony that took place entirely outdoors on the River Seine and featured performances from the likes of Celine Dion and Lady [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cFor most of the people who have only seen me on TV once or twice or watched the doc series once, they don\u2019t know how tall or short I am,\u201d Lyles continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a little harder for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nStill, Lyles explained that he hasn\u2019t totally closed himself off from interacting with other athletes and Olympic personnel inside the Village<\/a> \u2014 but it has to be on his own terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n![\"Team](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Team-USA-Noah-Lyles-Has-Been-Using-a-Disguise-to-Go-Incognito-Inside-the-Olympic-Village-03.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Noah Lyles<\/span> Alex Pantling\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI already have my set rules,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t take pictures while I eat, I don\u2019t take pictures when I\u2019m with my girlfriend and I don\u2019t take pictures when I work out. Other than that, everything is pretty fair game. I don\u2019t have a problem with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nLyles\u2019 girlfriend, Junelle Bromfield<\/strong>, is with him in Paris on her own hunt for gold. Bromfield, 26, is set to represent Jamaica in the 4x400m relay, the same event that earned her a bronze medal at Tokyo\u2019s 2020 Summer Olympics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re training together and competing most of the same days,\u201d Lyles said of their relationship. \u201cWe have that mental space to be able to share with each other and continuously feed into each other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nLyles also gushed about the support of his mother, Keisha Cane<\/strong>, who arrived in Paris to support her son earlier this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n![\"Feature](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Feature-Tonya-Harding-and-Nancy-Kerrigan-Biggest-Olympic-Feuds-and-Rivalries-Over-the-Years.jpg?crop=0px%2C100px%2C2000px%2C1130px&resize=400%2C225&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tDimitri Iundt\/Corbis\/VCG via Getty Images The Olympics features the best of the best going for the gold \u2014 and that can spark some heated rivalries. Arguably the most infamous Olympic rivalry occurred between professional figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. Their feud went so far that Harding\u2019s ex-husband and bodyguard hired a man to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cKnowing that anybody\u2019s here at any moment I need them and always giving encouraging words, it\u2019s very important,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very nice to have.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>Tide<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBefore Lyles officially hits the track for the first time in Paris to compete in the men\u2019s 100m heats on Saturday, August 3, he\u2019s got his new partnership to thank for keeping him fresh and clean.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI go through so much laundry, I\u2019m gonna need Tide,\u201d Lyles said. \u201cI mean, I\u2019m a track and field athlete. Just yesterday, I was training, and my coach was talking about the stains on my outfits. Olympians get stains too! We all need to wash our clothes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nLyles and 10-time Olympic medalist Carl Lewis<\/strong> came together for Tide\u2019s 2024 Summer Olympics campaign called \u201cStains Happen to the Best of Us,\u201d which can be viewed here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Still, Lyles explained that he hasn\u2019t totally closed himself off from interacting with other athletes and Olympic personnel inside the Village<\/a> \u2014 but it has to be on his own terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI already have my set rules,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t take pictures while I eat, I don\u2019t take pictures when I\u2019m with my girlfriend and I don\u2019t take pictures when I work out. Other than that, everything is pretty fair game. I don\u2019t have a problem with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lyles\u2019 girlfriend, Junelle Bromfield<\/strong>, is with him in Paris on her own hunt for gold. Bromfield, 26, is set to represent Jamaica in the 4x400m relay, the same event that earned her a bronze medal at Tokyo\u2019s 2020 Summer Olympics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re training together and competing most of the same days,\u201d Lyles said of their relationship. \u201cWe have that mental space to be able to share with each other and continuously feed into each other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lyles also gushed about the support of his mother, Keisha Cane<\/strong>, who arrived in Paris to support her son earlier this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\tDimitri Iundt\/Corbis\/VCG via Getty Images The Olympics features the best of the best going for the gold \u2014 and that can spark some heated rivalries. Arguably the most infamous Olympic rivalry occurred between professional figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. Their feud went so far that Harding\u2019s ex-husband and bodyguard hired a man to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cKnowing that anybody\u2019s here at any moment I need them and always giving encouraging words, it\u2019s very important,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very nice to have.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Before Lyles officially hits the track for the first time in Paris to compete in the men\u2019s 100m heats on Saturday, August 3, he\u2019s got his new partnership to thank for keeping him fresh and clean.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI go through so much laundry, I\u2019m gonna need Tide,\u201d Lyles said. \u201cI mean, I\u2019m a track and field athlete. Just yesterday, I was training, and my coach was talking about the stains on my outfits. Olympians get stains too! We all need to wash our clothes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lyles and 10-time Olympic medalist Carl Lewis<\/strong> came together for Tide\u2019s 2024 Summer Olympics campaign called \u201cStains Happen to the Best of Us,\u201d which can be viewed here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Noah Lyles<\/span> Alex Pantling\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t\tRelated: <\/span>The Biggest Olympic Feuds and Rivalries Over the Years<\/span><\/a>
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