Earlier this month, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill claimed that he could beat Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles in a race after Lyles earned the title of Fastest Man in the World by winning the 100m at the Paris Olympics. And it sounds like Hill is willing to prove it.
Lyles responded to Hill’s initial challenge on the Nightcap podcast with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson, saying that Hill was just “chasing clout” and expressing doubt that Hill would ever actually agree to a race with him.
“The man dodges smoke,” Lyles said according to Pro Football Talk. “I don’t got time for that. . . . If he’s serious about it, if truly serious about it — I’m not talking about you just talking on the Internet and you ain’t actually coming to me and talking to my agent and saying, ‘Let’s set something up,’ if you are seriously about it, you’ll see me on the track.”
But it seems like Hill has actually agreed to a race – at least, kind of.
Hill took to social media to challenge Lyles to a 50-yard race – not the 100m event where Lyles just won gold.
Sign the contract and lock in that 50 yard race …. https://t.co/b2I0QXojvU
— Ty Hill (@cheetah) August 18, 2024
“Sign the contract and lock in that 50 yard race,” Hill said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Lyles notoriously struggles with his start compared to other elite track athletes but he typically makes up for it with his top-end speed, catching his opponents toward the end of the sprint. Hill seems to be hoping that he will be more explosive than him off the jump, knowing he doesn’t have a chance in a 100m race.
Regardless, it would be interesting to see if they actually do race each other.
