How to call async code from sync code that was called from async code?

async-sync-async.py

import asyncio


async def asyncs():
    asyncio.sleep(1)
    return 6


def times_syncs(x):
    # I would like to be able to do call `asyncs()` somehow, but can't
    # figure out how to do that
    # return x * await asyncs()
    return x * 6


async def async_outer():
    return times_syncs(7)


def main():
    x = asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(
        async_outer()
    )
    print("What is six times seven?", x)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()