Why does NBC only care about Noah Lyles? What about Grant Holloway?

I think that they are both awesome, that Grant also gets a lot of hype, and that you are making much ado about nothing.

Lyles made his intentions clear that he was going to be going all out in promoting himself and his sport. He says it in interviews, he made that documentary. He's really raised the bar for self-promotion. Media companies like that. It's easier to promote people who are obsessively devoted to promoting themselves.

Yes. Noah, Bolt, FloJo.

In terms of records and championships, Cheptegei is nearly as impressive as Bolt, but the world isn't ready for that conversation yet.

Grant gets his due, Noah is more outspoken and that's what the media likes. Let's not pit to strong African American males against each other. We're lucky to have them both.

No one is on the same conversation as Bolt. Cheptegei needs 5 more Olympic Golds.

Noah wants to promote himself and Grant does not. Grant has been quoted saying he didn't want to be in any of the Netflix documentaries and that generally he wants to keep to himself and let his performances speak for themselves.

They’ve actually started doing that. In the last broadcast, they had a video package highlighting Lyles, Holloway, and Norman. It covered their disappointment in the last Olympics, the world championships they’ve won since then, and what they’re aspiring to do this summer in Paris. I thought it was well done.

Then, at the end of the broadcast, they had a good interview with Lyles, Holloway, and Benjamin all together. I think they are intentional about promoting US sprinting as a group. That said, the 100 remains the marquee event in track.

Grant is a great guy, a great competitor, and charismatic as well, but he would have to do several events to get Lyles-level prominence. He has that capacity. I could see him as a world champion 400m runner (43.xx carry at UF), a world level long jumper (26' in hs), a 100m guy (6.50 60m in 2019, to go with the 400m endurance), and with all that a great 400mH guy.

Kinda off topic but imagine the scenes when:

Lyles wins the 1

Lyles or Kenny wins the 2

Norman wins the 4

Holloway wins the 110

Benjamin wins the 400h

4x1 team wins

4x4 team wins

Mixed 4x4 wins

Honestly, all are possible (Rai is probably unlikely), but would be insane if we swept.

Rai winning the 400H is 10x more likely than Norman winning anything

haha what?? Bolt is greater in 1 of his events than cheptegei is in both of his events combined. Bolt has 13 individual gold medals at a major championship compared to cheptegei with just 4. Also Bolt runs events that people actually care about.

People like you that think that kenny actually has any shot of winning the 200m, have to have your head checked. Lyles is a lock for the 200m and can win running backwards. Kenny is basically a glorified pacemaker for lyles

Podcast idea: roast of Jon Gault, hosted by Noah and Grant. This would be brutal to watch.

Broadcast will always by and large care more for the marquee event of T&F i.e. the 100M than all the other also run, jump and throws combined. Hence the reason why a dominant force like Crouser is not front and center - even though he is white as well; and even more so why long distance races will never be as popular. The latter a very hard pill for most posters here on this site to swallow, but it is what it is.

What the h3ll are you talking about… ? Did you not watch yesterday’s programming?

Noah gets a lot of attention for sure, but can you imagine if he was a farmer and a mom?