Rusty Weiss
The ongoing feud between Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles and Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is getting chippy, and the end result just might be a race between the two.
Lyles won the gold medal in the men’s 100-meter dash at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 200-meter event didn’t go quite as well for the sprinter. A case of COVID apparently slowed him down a bit, but he still managed to win a bronze.
The results prompted Hill to suggest the illness was “horseradish” and that the track star had “pretend(ed) to be sick.”
He then took a personal shot at Lyles by claiming he could best him in a race.
“I would beat Noah Lyles,” Hill said. “I wouldn’t beat him by a lot, but I would beat Noah Lyles.”
Lyles would end up firing back … hard.
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Noah Lyles Rips Tyreek Hill
The world’s fastest man, Noah Lyles, took a jab at Tyreek Hill during a recent interview with NBC Sports. He playfully suggested he had no idea who the Super Bowl champ was.
“What’s the cheetah guy from football?” he said. “Well, I can’t remember his name.”
Lyles then appeared on Nightcap, a show hosted by Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, and further addressed Hill’s claims that he could smoke him on the track.
“If he’s serious about it, not just talking on the internet … if you’re serious about it, you’ll see me on track,” he said.
“Tyreek is just chasing clout,” Lyles added. “The man — anytime somebody fast comes up, he says he wants to race them. If he really wanted to race people, he would’ve showed up, like DK Metcalf.”
Noah Lyles says he’s down to race Tyreek Hill but he’s just chasing clout 👀
— Whistle (@WhistleSports) August 18, 2024
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Hill Responds With Official Race Challenge
Tyreek Hill officially issued a challenge to Noah Lyles and was promptly ripped to shreds for it. Why? Because he challenged him to a very, very short race.
“Sign the contract and lock in that 50-yard race,” Hill wrote on X.
The fact that he went with a 50-yard challenge seems to suggest Hill is already a bit worried about his chances in a race against the 100-meter gold medalist.
“50 yard???? you scared bro,” one X user replied.
Another jokingly asked, “What happen to the other 50 yards???”
Hill is an exceptionally fast football player, and he has also competed in track events. He has personal bests of 10.19 seconds in the 100m and 20.14 seconds in the 200m, which he achieved in high school.
The 10.19 wouldn’t have gotten Hill past the first round in the Olympic heats. 20.14 in the 200-meter finals would have earned Hill seventh place, well behind the COVID-infected Lyles.
Hill won the men’s 60-meter dash in last year’s USA Track & Field Masters Indoor Championships with a time of 6.70 seconds. His time was roughly 0.4 seconds off world record pace, which in a 60-meter race is a lifetime.
The Dolphins receiver said he didn’t look good in that race and claimed he was “never racing again.”
Still, it helps explain why he wants to slash the length of the race by yet another 10 meters in the hope that he can get off the blocks a little quicker than Lyles.
Who do you think would win the race?