Tyreek Hill, a wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins, has made a name for himself as the NFL’s fastest player. One of the league’s most explosive wide receivers, Hill possesses both top-end speed and the ability to blast out of breaks and decelerate at the top of his routes. In 2019, the explosive wide receiver helped the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl. He made Miami the only team to average over 400 offensive yards per game the previous season.
Although Hill’s speed can make NFL defences cower, he is nothing compared to the competitors who will compete in the Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024. Despite this, the five-time All-Pro has not abated his criticism of American sprinter Noah Lyles, who has angered numerous athletes with his divisive remarks against NBA and NFL players.
NBA Finals winners were called “world champions” by Lyles, who made this criticism during the 2023 World Athletic Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
“The most painful thing for me is having to watch the NBA Finals, where they wear the title of ‘world champion’ on their head,” Lyles remarked. “What is the world champion? The US? Do not misunderstand me. Sometimes I love the United States, but that’s not the globe. That’s not how the world works. The world is us. Almost every nation is present here, battling, prospering, and flying its flag to declare its presence. The NBA does not have any flags.”
NBA players were still responding to the remarks during the Paris Games, where the American men’s basketball team overcame France to win the gold medal.
Tyreek Hill lashes out at Noah Lyles for calling him a “world champion”
In an interview with presenter Kay Adams on the “Up & Adams” podcast on Monday, Hill was asked about Lyles’ contention that Super Bowl winners shouldn’t think of themselves as global champions. With a provocative retort of his own, Hill implied that Lyles had exploited illness as a pretext for finishing third in the 200-meter sprint at the Paris Games.
“After what happened to him, Noah Lyles can’t say anything,” Hill remarked. “After that, he wants to act ill and come out. That sounds like horseradish to me. So it’s disappointing that he would claim that we aren’t the global champions in our sport. Just talk about what you know, which is track, please, bruh.”
Lyles set a personal record of 9.78 seconds to win gold in the 100-meter event at the Paris Games. Following his third-place result in the 200-meter race, Lyles lost consciousness and had to be wheeled off the track. In the days preceding the race, he tested positive, as he subsequently disclosed.
Hill went on to joke about with Lyles, saying he could win a race against the gold medallist.
Hill declared, “I would defeat Noah Lyles.” “I would defeat Noah Lyles, but I’m not going to beat him by much.”
In 2016, Hill’s fastest speed was 23.24 mph during a kick return; this was around four mph less than Lyles’s peak speed of 27.09 mph, which he achieved while winning the 100-meter event. Hill has a history in track, but sprinting on turf with protection and a helmet definitely slowed him down. In 2013, he ran a 9.98-second 100-meter dash at the NJCAA championships, earning him the title of high school All-American.
Either way, it probably doesn’t matter. In a foot race, Hill would have no chance against Lyles. Maybe each of them should just focus on their own sport.
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