A little more than six months were eliminated from winning an Olympic gold medal in the 100 men of the Miami Dolphins, Tyreek Hill.
After exchanging spikes and talking about garbage for months, Lyles and Hill announced their intention to run with each other earlier this month. And Lyles is taking the opportunity seriously.
“I’m not here to play,” Lyles told NBC News. “I’m serious about this. I’m going to bring everything I have for this. ”
Lyles, 27, won gold in Paris with an exciting end in the 100 meters, defeating Kishane Thompson from Jamaica for a second fraction. Only eight days after the race, Hill, known as possibly the fastest receiver of the NFL, was asked in a podcast if he could beat Lyles in a race. He did not hesitate to say yes.
The two have exchanged shots since then. Lyles intensified the flesh when he raised a “Tyreek firm never” after winning the 60 -meter race in the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on February 2.
Lyles said he and Hill really spoke for the first time after the Interior Grand Prix. In brief telephone conversations, both athletes claimed that the face were taken seriously on the track and finally agreed to run.
And in those conversations with Hill, Lyles says he made it clear not to confuse his garbage talk with the heart of the light.
“I don’t want you to think I’m just joking,” Lyles said about his message to the Dolphins receiver. “Let me be sure saying this. I am your boy. I am your boy who is going to let you balance, but he better believes that I will dodge him and hit you with a uppercut. ”
Hill, for his credit, is not retreating his decoration opponent, telling NBC Sports in February that Lyles “should be scared” of him in a 40 -yard race.
The event is not exempt from detractors, since some call it a “big mistake” for a Lyles caliber corridor to entertain Hill’s challenge. But Lyles says that a motivation is to bring more ocular balloons to sport outside the Olympic Games, which only takes place once every four years.
“Something that is constantly in my mind is how to monitor relevant,” Lyles said. “Track and Field has a great reputation within the Olympic Games, but in the marketing sense, when it comes to the United States, it falls short many times.”
Lyles believes that his career against Hill could be a way of generating enthusiasm for sport.
“I receive a lot of hate from the people who do not believe that I should run it. And they say: ‘This is below you’, “he says.” Well, apparently it is not, because here we are. “
So far from a Lyles corridor is, it can be equally expert in attracting attention. He says that he has been doing what dates back to the eighth grade, when he tried to get “Ooohs and Aaahs” from the crowd with pranks before and after racing.
That show streak has followed Lyles to the Olympic Games and beyond. In June last year, he brought Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards with him to the United States tests and even kept a rare on their shirt. In Paris, Snoop Dogg wore a shirt with Lyles’s face in one of his races.
“I want to be more than a corridor because there are enough runners,” he said. “But who are the artists?”
Most of the details of the race against Hill are still in the air, the most important thing is the length and location, although Lyles mentioned 60 meters and Times Square of New York City as possibilities. Summer is also likely for time, since Lyles will be deeply in training for US championships and Hill will be preparing for the NFL season.
And in regards to the nerves, Lyles says that the only thing that could make a lower performance is that fans do not get excited enough.
“I’m more thinking about ‘Dang, I have the opportunity to break the world record along with Tyreek’s beating,” Lyles said. “So Tyreek better to be prepared, because if a world record on his head falls, he will not be able to hear anything.”
