Lyles and Hill continue to trade trash talk over a potential race.
at the 2024 Summer Olympics and being crowned the "Fastest Man in the World," Lyles sat down with ESPN's Stan Verrett, and the topic of the Miami Dolphins receiver's challenge of a race between the two came up. Lyles offered support to Hill related to his recentHe clarified that the trash-talking was related to their speed, not what happened with the police. Lyles said, "The two scenarios are different.
Then he got right into discussing their relative speeds. He said, "But in terms of running a race ... look man you gotta be serious. Everybody wants to jump up to the top ... everybody wants to race the 'fastest man.' I didn't grab this title because it's easy. Or because I went the easy route."where Hill should work his way up through the levels before racing him. The gold medalist seemed to agree that might be the right path to take.
Towards the end, Lyles did indicate that if a race did happen it would be at 60 meters and that the two parties are "in talks."Hill is considered one of the NFL's fastest players and ran track during his time at Oklahoma State. He won a 60-meter race at the 2023 USATF Masters Indoor Championships in the 25 to 29 age range as well.Ryan Phillips is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated.
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