Noah Lyles doesn’t have a rival. That’s according to the sprinter himself.

One might think Oblique Seville would qualify, as the Jamaican beat Lyles in the 100 meters at this fall’s World Athletics Championships. So, too, might fellow American Kenny Bednarek, whose shove of Lyles at the U.S. track championships in August created headlines and social media chatter up through Worlds.

Lyles stared down Bednarek in the final paces of the U.S. 200m final and past the finish line, which he now concedes was more aggressive than an act of gamesmanship. Still, he remains adamant that the shove that followed was unwarranted. “That was pure assault,” he said.

Having just gotten into WWE this year — his mother wouldn’t allow him to watch growing up — Lyles seems to have the scripting of profession

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