Noah Lyles Topped World’s Quickest Man, Months After World Champion Debate

Noah Lyles is a real world champion … topped the “World’s Quickest Man” after profitable the 100m sprint — months after he instructed NBA champs to cease calling themselves world champions.

The Olympian simply took gold within the males’s 100m in a heart-stopping end … narrowly edging out Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by .005 seconds to win Olympic Gold.

Actually, the race was so shut commentators initially thought Thompson gained … earlier than the photograph end proved in any other case.

With Lyles’ win, he takes residence the gold and the unofficial title given to the winner of the Olympics 100m — “World’s Quickest Man” … an enormous honor particularly contemplating the X beef NL engaged in final 12 months.

ICYMI … Lyles gained three golds on the World Athletic Video games in Budapest final 12 months — and promptly referred to as out NBA title winners for referring to themselves as world champions ‘trigger they solely play different North American groups.

This prompted swift backlash from Drake, Kevin Durant, Draymond Inexperienced, Devin Booker and extra stars who felt Noah was being downright disrespectful. Giannis Antetokounmpo later got here out and backed Noah up … however, truthful to say he is persona non grata in NBA circles.