Grant and Noah have won world champs the last three years. Both are trying to redeem themselves for 2021 Olympics. Both are near the World Record in their best event. Both could jump on 4x100 and 4x400 and be successful. There's a lot of similarity on paper.
The difference to me is that Grant is naturally charismatic and funny and Noah's social personality feels very forced.
Is this just simply that 100/200 is the glory event? I just am curious NBC is so insistent for the last 8 years or so that Noah is the one and only face of Olympics/USA track. EVERY commercial, EVERY promo, etc. Are we just that desperate to recreate Bolt? In Moneyball terms, why can't we just "create him in the aggregate" with all the great USA athletes instead of trying to make Lyles the new Bolt?
Thoughts?