Noah Lyles lived up to his boasting on Sunday and claimed the men's 100m title at the world athletics championships in Budapest at the end of a pulsating night of action in which Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson produced two lifetime best performances to clinch gold in the women's heptathlon.
Lyles had spent the prelude to the meeting at the National Athletics Centre sparring verbally with his compatriot Fred Kerley about who was the fastest.
