How did Noah Lyles do in the Olympic 200-meter final?

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo won, American Kenny Bednarek got silver and Lyles finished third.

Lyles fell to the track in the immediate aftermath and was tended to by trainers before getting up and walking over to a nearby bench. 

The 200 was supposed to be the easy half of Lyles’ historic Olympic sprint double for the newly crowned World’s Fastest Man.

Tebogo crossed the finished line in 19.46 seconds, followed by Bednarek in 19.62 and Lyles in 19.70. 

Fellow American Erriyon Knighton finished 4th in 19.99 seconds.  

Getting golds in the 100 and 200 at a single Olympics is a rare feat. Usain Bolt accomplished that double at three Olympics in a row — in Beijing in 2008, London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. But until the Jamaican, no man had done it since Carl Lewis at Los Angeles in 1984.

The 200 is Lyles' preferred, and better, distance — one at which he had not lost a race in three full years. That streak was snapped earlier this week at the Stade de France in a semifinal, where Letsile Tebogo of Botswana beat him to the line by crossing in 19.96 seconds, 0.12 faster than runner-up Lyles.

Before pulling out his narrow win over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson in the 100 final on Sunday night, Lyles didn't finish first in his heat or his semifinal.

As anyone who pays any attention is well aware, Lyles is a showman who loves the spotlight and enjoys spending time with a microphone.

So it raised some eyebrows when Lyles skipped the interview area after Wednesday's run, and U.S. team officials said he was heading to the medical tent. His coach, Lance Brauman, told The Associated Press: “He’s fine.”