Noah Lyles slammed by track and field community for his ego only to be brutally shut down after
Lyles received massive criticism from the track and field community after appearing to shun Jamaican athletes and sprinters, only to be brutally shut down in stats comparing him to Usain Bolt’s records. Lyles appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show on July 17 when she called him the fastest man on the planet as she introduced him, whilst he responded with a curt, “Yeah, let’s hope,” ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
As a young runner, he’s very confident in his abilities and could be set to lead the USA to gold medal glory in Europe in a few weeks’ time to return them to the top step of the podium for the first time since the 2004 Games in Athens, as he sets himself lofty goals. “Grabbing a world record is one of two things that I still have left to do,” Lyles is also on record for insisting he will the person to shatter Usain Bolt’s 100m and 200m world records. “One being grabbing an Olympic gold, and then, two, grabbing a world record.” And after he was perceived to have come across as arrogant in Netflix’s documentary, Sprint, as well as upsetting the Jamaican.
aficionados react to the news Track and field aficionados were quick to point out Lyles likely isn’t the quickest sprinter in the world, and that he definitely isn’t the fastest of all time as they wonder where Clarkson’s claims originated from.
