Connections: Sports Edition Coach: Hints, facts about puzzle No. 4

Need help with today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle? You’ve come to the right place.

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues, learn a bit more about today’s terms and discuss (and share) scores.

A quick public service announcement before we continue: The bottom of this article includes one answer in each of the four categories and some deeper reading about one of the answers. So if you want to solve the board hint-free, we recommend you play before continuing.

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Today’s difficulty

The difficulty score is an average rating from our testers, who play the game in advance to check for quality and accuracy.

Game No. 4’s difficulty: 3 out of 5

Hints

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Yellow: CUT

Green: REACH

Blue: STAR

Purple: LYLES

More reading (and an extra hint)

That’s Lyles, as in Noah Lyles, who claimed the title of the fastest man in the world by winning the 100-meter dash at the Paris Olympics this summer.

The Athletic’s Marcus Thompson II was there in France for the moment and captured it perfectly.

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