American sprinter Noah Lyles is back at it again with some more backhanded comments about his Canadian rivals.
The 28-year-old and his American teammates got the best of Canada at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo over the weekend. He anchored the U.S. team to a gold medal in the 4 x 100-metre relay, finishing with a time of 37.29 seconds.
That was just slightly faster than the Canadian team of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, and Brendon Rodney, who finished with a season-best time of 37.55 seconds to secure the silver medal. It was De Grasse who went head-to-head with Lyles in the anchor leg, but was unable to pull ahead.
The outspoken Lyles has a history of starting beef with Canada, and he didn’t pass up the opportunity to do so again after the victory. Lyle