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≡ FOOTBALL vs. TRACK ≡
After months of trash talk, Olympic 100 m champion Noah Lyles will race speedy Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill sometime in the late spring or early summer, somewhere, at a distance to be agreed upon.
That’s about all that came from an online interview between the two and People Magazine’s Natasha Dye. Highlights:
● Hill: “This has been an ongoing thing for, quite some time now, and I mean, everybody’s seen the back and forth on social media. I’ve been very adamant to show people what real, true speed looks like.”
● Lyles: “Everybody says that they’re gonna be the world’s fastest, but when it comes down to it, you gotta be the winner every time, each and every time, and every time I show up to the biggest moments, I win.
“That’s why I’m the world’s fastest. I did at the Olympics. I do it at world championships. I do it wherever it’s needed to be done. And if I gotta go down and, you know, beat up on Tyreek to prove that I’m the world’s fastest, then it’s gonna be done.”
Hill said he feels he’s “got to do this for the guys that play my sport” and that many NFL players “did run track at some point, and we can come and take over your sport at any moment if we really wanted to.”
All the details still have to be worked out, but Hill boasts that he would win in a football-type race, such as 40 yards, the distance typically measured for football players. Lyles said he refused that offer – “I did that not to embarrass you” – but added:
“I mean if it was 100-meters, it’d be a blowout, you know, we gotta meet in the middle.”
Sounds like a 60 m somewhere in Florida, where Lyles trains and Hill plays for the Dolphins.
Much more hype to come, for sure. And money. The U.S. Nationals are in Eugene, Oregon from 31 July to 2 August.
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