‘Lyle has a loose mouth’

US sprint star Noah Lyles has a last competitive track outing at Saturdayrsquos London Diamond League before heading across the English Channel to the Paris OlympicsLyles who won the 100m and 200m titles at last yearrsquos world championships in Budapest will run the shorter sprint in the British capital in his continuing bid to set himself up as the true successor to nowretired legend Usain BoltAlso read Usain Bolt MPH The fastest man aliveBut the American will be up against Britainrsquos Anguillaborn Zharnel Hughes who won bronze behind him in Hungary and the dangerous duo of world silver medallist Letsile Tebago of Botswana and South Africarsquos Akani SimbineldquoIrsquom looking forward to London I feel itrsquos going to be specialrdquo said Hughes who was disqualified from the 100m final at the Coviddelayed Tokyo Olympics won by Italyrsquos Marcell JacobsldquoThe fact itrsquos the last Diamond League before the Olympic Games itrsquos going to be stacked and I want to lay something down thererdquoHughes costars alongside Lyles in the Netflix docuseries Sprint but said he hadnrsquot realised how much his US rival talked about himlsquoI realise he said a lotrsquoldquoI didnrsquot really know he said that much about me until I saw the preview and I realise he said a lot I will see him in London and wersquoll meet theremdashbut Irsquoll talk with the spikes He just has a loose mouth but I guess thatrsquos how he gets his confidence At the end of the day hersquos performing as well so I have to give him creditrdquo said HughesldquoI was like lsquothis guy can talkrsquo I knew he talked but I didnrsquot know he talked that much Obviously me being a competitor it raised all the red in me I was like lsquothis guy man Shut uprsquoPerfect timingldquoMy girlfriend said lsquodonrsquot try to let it get to your head Hersquos saying these things so you guys can be thrown off psychologicallyrsquo So for me I use that desire that red in me and I try to put it out on the track Irsquom looking forward to actually sitting down and hearing all the things that he had to say Itrsquos just the perfect timing leading up to the Olympic GamesrdquoApart from Hughes British interest will come from the Carl Lewiscoached Louie Hinchliffe who won the 100m at the highly competitive NCAA championships in a personal best of 995sec before snatching the British title tooThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever