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In antique age, sport was associated with the ethical and aesthetic development of the body as an expression of virtuous living; in modern times, it has come to be defined by performance, competition, and the transcendence of bodily limits. This cultural transformation has not only altered the practice of sport but also reshaped the ways in which it is conceptualized. The idea framed around Noah Lyles's performance and life story during the 2024 Paris Olympics, approaches sport as not merely a physical activity, but also a psychic and temporal experience-drawing on Aristotle's definition of time through motion, Heidegger's analyses in Being and Time, and Gerard Szwec's concept of the Les Galériens Volontaires. By reconsidering sport through the axes of object relations, and psychosomatic processes, the discussion opens up a field in which repetition, destructiveness, and creativity are enacted. This article offers a psychoanalytic proposal on how the athlete's body senses time through the concept of the “Time Skin”.