Sprinter Lyles says race vs. Fins' Hill is canceled

Olympic 100-meter champion Noah Lyles has canceled his much-anticipated showdown with Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, owed to "personal reasons."

Hill had challenged Lyles to a 50-yard contention days aft the American sprinter won golden successful the 100 meters astatine the Paris Games past year.

Lyles said that plans were to clasp the contention against Hill this play successful New York's Times Square.

"We were precise heavy into creating the event," Lyles told reporters astatine the Stagwell Global Sport Beach lawsuit successful Cannes, France. "In fact, it was expected to hap this weekend.

"Unfortunately, determination were immoderate things, complications, idiosyncratic reasons that it conscionable didn't travel to pass, but we were afloat on. We were going to unopen down New York's Times Square and everything, it was going to beryllium a batch of fun."

Hill has boasted that helium could bushed Lyles successful a race, starring to plentifulness of trash speech betwixt the 2 men.

When Lyles won his 4th consecutive 60-meter indoor rubric successful February, helium playfully tore disconnected his contention bib to uncover a scrawled message: "Tyreek Could Never."

Hill, a two-time authorities way champion arsenic a precocious school, ran a 100-meter prelim successful a personal-best clip of 10.15 seconds successful Sherman Oaks, California, past Friday and playfully responded to Lyles by holding a handwritten motion that read, "Noah Could Never."

Lyles said galore people, including imaginable sponsors, thought the planned contention against Hill was each conscionable talk.

"A batch of radical didn't judge it to beryllium true. They thought it was just, 'Oh, this is conscionable them talking online'," Lyles said. "The companies didn't judge it's real."

Reuters contributed to this report.