Trayvon Bromell left the 2016 Rio Olympic track in a wheelchair. He hopes to leave the Tokyo Games with the men’s 100-meter gold medal.
TOKYO—The men of the 100-meter Olympic race are seen as the peak blend of human muscle and speed, their sculpted physiques the picture of strength and health.The 26-year-old American from St. Petersburg, Fla., was last seen on an Olympic track five years ago, grimacing in pain after running the anchor leg of the 4×100-meter relay. He then climbed into a wheelchair, his Achilles tendon screaming, left the 2016 Rio Games track and transitioned into years of surgeries and tumult.
On Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics, Bromell will line up on the starting line with a chance to become the first U.S. man since 2004 to win 100-meter gold. When the 5-foot-8-inch sprinter takes off, he will race to claim the crown held for the previous three Olympics by the now-retired, 6-foot-5 Usain Bolt.
Bromell will do so not as a perfectly honed machine of lean muscle, but as an often broken, still healing, multi-faceted person who just happens to also be the fastest man alive this year. Although he squeaked into the 100-meter semifinals in his Saturday heat at Olympic Stadium, just his presence in Tokyo seems a revelation.
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