Noah Lyles won the 200 meters at the New Balance Grand Prix, 2021.(Photo/Instagram)
What’s better than having an athlete from your city make the Olympic team? Having three former Titans representing Alexandria and the United States in Japan for this year’s summer Olympics.
The stories of the three graduates of T.C. Williams High School, now called Alexandria City High School, are told in today’s Times front-page story “Three Titans vie for Olympic gold.”
Tynita Butts-Townsend, Noah Lyles and Troy IsLey graduated from T.C. Williams in 2009, 2016 and 2017 respectively. While they share a tie to the Port City and are American Olympians headed to the one-year-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the three athletes took very different routes to the Olympic roster.
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