Zharnel Hughes believes he can emulate Linford Christie by winning 100m gold for Britain at the Olympic Games next month. But first he has a score to settle with the brash US world 100m and 200m champion Noah Lyles, who he says “raised all the red in me” with a withering putdown that went viral after the launch of Netflix’s new track and field series, Sprint.
In the clip from last summer, Lyles is asked by a journalist what it would take to win the 200m at the London Diamond League. “Whatever I run,” he replies. When Hughes says he wants to show that he is “ready as well”, his American rival tells him: “If you don’t have main character energy, track and field isn’t for you.”
