
The highly anticipated race between Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles and Miami Dolphins speedster Tyreek Hill won't get off the starting blocks.
The event, sparked by months of back-and-forth trash talk between the two athletes, was canceled after it was initially scheduled for this weekend in Manhattan.
“We were very deep into creating the event. In fact, it was supposed to happen this weekend,” Lyles said Monday at the Sport Beache event in Cannes, France. “Unfortunately there were some things, complications, personal reasons that it just didn’t come to pass, but we were full on.
“We were gonna have a big event, we were going to shut down New York Times Square and everything, we were gonna have all the billboards for the event, it was going to be a lot of fun.”
finally agreed to race each other took home the gold medal
But there will be no race this summer between the gold medalist and one of the NFL's fastest players. Instead, Hill will continue to prepare for training camp next month.
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