The invisible Olympic champion, the monosyllabic world champion and the fastest influencer – a series about the fastest men in the world should have found the almost perfect protagonists in Marcell Jacobs, Fred Kerley and Noah Lyles. On Sunday evening (7.10 p.m. on ARD and Eurosport) at the World Championships in Budapest in the final over 100 meters it will be decided who owns the title – whether it even belongs to one of them.
Jacobs, the Roman Olympic champion in Tokyo, looks like the inventor of bling with his tattoos and diamonds. Kerley, the unwieldy world champion from Eugene/Oregon, presents the cowboy-like loner, the personification of the lone star of his native Texas, with press conferences in which he answers little more than yes and no. And then there’s Noah Lyles, working across all channels of the digital age to turn track and field athletes’ walk into the locker room into a catwalk by sporting the most outrageous attire.
