Trayvon Bromell now Hot favorite for Gold in Tokyo ?
It's almost crazy to think that 5 months ago we were all so certain that the Tokyo Games will be a 2 man show in the sprints, with Coleman and Lyles battling over supremacy over both the 100m and 200m. Now we are facing a Whole new dilemma less than a year prior to the opening ceremony of the postponed Tokyo Games, as it seems Trayvon Bromell is hot favorite for gold in the 100m.
The last time we saw Bromell prior to 2020, was at the Sprint series in 2019 where he finished 5th in the preliminaries, then failed to even finish the Final. So when he showed up in 2020 in spanking form it is something that still has the athletics community amazed. Just when we thought 2020 might go down as a year we want to forget, there goes Bromell with his 3 consecutive sub 10 clockings in less than 3 weeks, and if that was not enough he defeated the current 200m world champion Noah Lyles in a time 9.90 seconds.
Keep in mind, that 9.90 is still the fastest time by a 100m athlete for the Calendar year, and the second fastest overall, only behind Michael Norman's freakish 9.86 seconds. So it seems Bromell is currently favorite for Tokyo, that is unless Norman decides to run the 100m at the Olympics.
