Olympian Noah Lyles Spoke To Me About His Viral NBA Comments, The Paris Olympics, And His Upbringing

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You’ve opened up about your mental health in the past, something that I really admire about you, and Simone Biles has done the same. What advice would you give to other athletes when it comes to their mental health and competing?

I advise you to go jump in some therapy. It is no harm to get a checkup from the neck up. You know, they’ll wonder, why are you so joyful? Why are you so confident? Why you move the way you do, and it’s because you know who you are, you’re confident in yourself, and you love what you do. And because of that, you know you’re going to grow, and you’re going to find, hopefully, other like-minded people like that. And those are the people that you know are going to say, “I’m going to constantly grow in life.”