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Olympics 100m champion Noah Lyles is ready to race his 400m hurdles counterpart Rai Benjamin in an attempt for the 300m indoor world record at the New Balance Grand Prix.
Olympics 100m champion Noah Lyles and his 400m hurdles counterpart Rai Benjamin have agreed to go for a 300m showdown at the New Balance Grand Prix next year.
Benjamin initially asked for a 200m indoor race with Lyles, with the two going for a world record, but despite the world champion over the distance accepting the challenge, the former’s coach talked him out of it, before they agreed to the 300m.
“Coach New Balance Grand Prix 200m?” Lyles asked his coach Lance Brauman if a 200m showdown was viable.
Before he got a response, Benjamin was on the phone with his management asking the same.
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“How do you feel, me and Noah 200m indoors?” Benjamin asked but the response from his handlers was a big no.
“No? Why do you mean no? why not?” the sprinter queried further.
“Indoors?” his coach asked, “Yes, indoors we are trying to go for the world record,” Benjamin said.
“Can’t you do the 300m?” Benjamin’s coach responded. However, Benjamin was seemingly not ready for a longer distance.
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“Okay, this is the issue with the 300m, it will take too much time to gain that fitness,” he said.
“You are not ready for a 200m,” his handlers told him, after which he yielded to pressure. “Aright 300m,” said Benjamin. “300m can be a discussion for sure.”
Lyles was ready, saying: “Alright, that is a bet I’ll take it.”
But Brauman threw a spanner in the works when he suggested a different idea.
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“I personally say you get together a 4x400m dream team and break a world record,” he suggested.
“That is way more viable,” Lyles responded, before the two sprinter started looking for possible runners who could form their 4x400m relay Dream Team.
The New Balance Grand Prix is slated for February in Boston and fans will be hoping that the two sprinters live up to the promise and if not, so maybe the 4x400m Dream Team would have been formed for a shot at the world record.
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