Is the Next Great Sprint Rivalry Here? Christian Coleman (and Girlfriend) Throw Shade At Noah Lyles on Twitter

whether he is a moron or not Bolden is awful at his commentating job. By the time of the world champs I'll be hoping to find an international feed rather than Ato, Masback and the lowest common denominator crew we get on NBC.

how does attracting loads of know-nothing fans help those of us who follow the sport get a well-informed, correctly pitched TV broadcast? it will just be dumbed down even more. Time for Ato and his stupid ideas to go.

Ever been in the UK during a major championship? The presentation and the intelligent commentary is another league compared to the crap we get in the US. Time to stop basing track and filed commentary in the US around fans of other sports or those tuning in because of a hyped rivalry. Anyway, real rivalries don't need twitter.

Trash talking rivals isn’t new

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Sda_eV85U

Lol who cares. If I was Christian Coleman I would be fine. Lyles had to make a comeback to barely beat him at the end. Next time they race, Coleman will have worked more on his speed endurance and will be able to show that he's the better sprinter and that the early win means nothing (if he beats Lyles). If Christian Coleman is truly the kind of person that just wants to let his running do the talking then this is what he should do, congratulate Lyles on his win, hold the L and then dominate Lyles the next time they face off.

And it's fine that Noah Lyles is celebrating. Let him be happy and enjoy his win. He made a good effort to take the win.

Social media wants a good story so of course they will add fuel to the fire lol.

On a side note, it would be hilarious is Lyles doesn't even run the 100 and worlds. Just take the win from Coleman and dip looool. That would be a gangster move.

True. BUT no one will care (that Lyles beat him) if Coleman is world champ

Dhdhshshs wrote:

True. BUT no one will care (that Lyles beat him) if Coleman is world champ

If Noah Lyles is world champ in the 200 and Coleman in the 100 but Lyles never even runs the 100 at worlds that would look better for him than running the 100 at world champs and losing to coleman imo.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

I have seen fighters who started off hating each other become the best of friends, often deeply respectful of each other—but I have never seen this kind of outcome among sprinters. Unstructured fights between sprinters don’t result in this outcome, and I have seen more than a few. Because there is no direct interaction, the gulfs tend to widen, the animosity, bitterness, and resentment grow rather than dissipate.

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You have hit upon something that has been bugging me about the sport for many years. Track seems to have a very high percentage of jealous, petty, whiny people - the athletes, the fans, the officials, the parents, the coaches, the administrators, the sponsors. American football players will beat the s**t out of each other for 60 minutes and when the game ends it is over unless something egregious occurs. You rarely see NFL players whining on Twitter after a playoff loss, they may complain a little about a bad call then drop it. Perhaps not engaging in combat does something to track people, making their egos brittle and fragile. There was a time when track was a sport for civilized behavior and good sportsmanship and participants were expected to at least exhibit those qualities.

I actually learned something reading that. I never liked Coleman. I thought he was too boastful and loud. Now I'm reading that he's quiet that his celebrating only happens on that track and that's pretty cool.

I've been a Lyles fan and now hear that he's the boisterous one. I'm shocked.

The real question could come down to who has the hotter girlfriend.

Jonathan Gault’s article completely misses the mark on a couple of points, one of them of important. First, Lyles is stockier than Coleman. Coleman is actually quite thin for his height, making him an anomaly among sprinters. Second, the reason Lyles “takes a while to come up to speed” is because his start and acceleration phase is bad. If Lyles had accelerated properly in that race he most likely would have broken Bolt’s record. In Coleman’s case, his technique was flawless, taking into account his strange foot strike asymmetry which doesn’t seem to affect his performances. Coleman faded in that race because it was his opener (Lyles ran 10.14 in his opener a couple of weeks ago). Both of these guys are going to run faster later this season and one of them may break Bolt’s record. Lyles does seem to have the most potential at this point, all he has to do is get his start and acceleration down. The neophytes among you will say “but Lyles’ first step came down almost at the same time as Coleman’s!” Yes, and then Lyles proceeded to lose ground with each stride because his knees coming up too high and his foot was striking to far forward as opposed to Coleman who followed text book protocol with low knee lift and his feet striking behind his knees pushing him forward faster with each step.

Jonathan Gault needs a new eyeglass prescription wrote:

If Lyles had accelerated properly in that race he most likely would have broken Bolt’s record.

Ha, ya man all Lyles needed to do was accelerate "properly" and he would have run under 9.58! that's all he needed to do guys! Just accelerate properly haha! WR incoming. haha lol.

that's how I know this guy is retarded.

Alien Dragon wrote:

Jonathan Gault needs a new eyeglass prescription wrote:

If Lyles had accelerated properly in that race he most likely would have broken Bolt’s record.

Ha, ya man all Lyles needed to do was accelerate "properly" and he would have run under 9.58! that's all he needed to do guys! Just accelerate properly haha! WR incoming. haha lol.

that's how I know this guy is retarded.

Take another toke of your ganja fool. Say hi to the girls in Kingston for me tell them I will be back soon to bang them again.

If I’m lyles I’m more worried about Norman over 200m than Coleman over 100.

Yama Bannana wrote:

Alien Dragon wrote:

Ha, ya man all Lyles needed to do was accelerate "properly" and he would have run under 9.58! that's all he needed to do guys! Just accelerate properly haha! WR incoming. haha lol.

that's how I know this guy is retarded.

Take another toke of your ganja fool. Say hi to the girls in Kingston for me tell them I will be back soon to bang them again.

jajajaja sorry mate. The girls in Kingston don't bang retards.

Boldon is a hack. Only distance dork aggregators would consider his trite commentary insightful. Lyles is cheesy af. At first it seemed light hearted and jovial since he was a young pro. But at this point his little act is just lame. No reason to cheer for him or consider him a true contender. His 100m performances will be inconsistent throughout his career.

Negative energy when it's directed at individuals is bad for the sport, as it is in most other sports, even boxing. Ali would joke around with his rivals, but when you get someone like the Irish hype throwing things through bus windows, it kills the sport. More great races between Coleman and Lyles like the last one are great for the sport. The sniping and annoying breathless media neologisms are bad for the sport.

In my opinion, Coleman's form was breaking down in the late stage of the race and he was getting tight, rather than easing up, while Lyles was flowing without tightening up at all, the key to his victory.

You may be right—but I thought I saw a clear and instantaneous decrease in cadence, combined with a change in body position, head and torso going back.

Or it might be a combination of both.

But his 100m history is definitely on your side. ?

heering wrote:

Couldn't agree more. A little feud or rivalry between Coleman and Lyles is exactly what track needs. Bolt is gone and the average guy in the street has no reason to watch track.

If Coleman and Lyles want to talk a little **** good for them.

My take is Coleman is a bit worried about Lyles eclipsing him.

The scared dogs is the one who barks.

I disagree, I don't think either of them are scared. CC is calm and collected and doesn't show any emotion. Lyles has his signature upbeat emotion so even if he was scared, you won't ever be able to tell.

CC basically claimed himself as the next big thing when he broke the 60 WR, won the indoor title and ran a world leading 100 time coming off injury. All the tweet was doing was saying "hey, I took a narrow loss, but I'm still the man to beat, I still have a rep to defend". Next time him and Lyles line up in a 100m dash, CC will still be the man to beat in my eyes.

This is little more than trolling. Coleman, the quiet one, the anti-social media guy, has now made several comments about the race, and about Noah Lyles, as has his girlfriend.

Noah hasn't said a word, or replied to Coleman at all. It's a little ridiculous to call him brash, or to start talking about this rivalry like it's a "thing" when so far there's no sign of that at all.

They're both great sprinters. It was a great race, and that's really all we need to worry about right now.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Boldon is a moran.

All other things being equal, it’s better when the differences are on the track, and only on the track. We don’t need off-track jerk behavior like we have seen from other athletes (or even on-track jerk behavior like The Greener, Crawfish, etc).

And “the girlfriend”, I have no idea what she said or did, but...GET LOST. This is the kind of crap interference that nobody needs. Get your own life.

Good-natured, honorable, solid competition, then everybody wins.

“Back in his day” were some of the most detestable stains on the history of sprints. They made sprinting worse, not better.

Boldon = Moran.

I don't have a problem with anything Bolton said, it pretty tame to me. Also, I have not read anything from Coleman or Lyles to or about each other. I am not a big fan of trash talking becasue I still hold to the old culture of track & field being gentlemen sport. However, I have to admit I an envious of the mileage MMA and boxing gets out turning athletes into over the top characters.