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American Noah Lyles in the reigning Olympic and world 100m champion but his time in the specialty is not near Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds recorded at the 2009 World Championships.
American sprints legend Justin Gatlin has weighed in on the ongoing debate regarding the fastest man in the world.
While many believe Jamaican legendary sprinter Usain Bolt deserves the status, Gatlin, who is the 2004 Olympic 100m champion gave his preference for Noah Lyles. Gutlin, who also boasts of four world championships titles, said Lyles is the king of sprints since he is the current world and Olympic champion.
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09:56 - 23.12.2024
'Sometimes you feel people are scared' — Noah Lyles on rivals who pushed him to greatness
Noah Lyles won the 200m US Olympic trials for Paris Games largely because of the quality of competition with Christian Coleman and Kenny Bednarek pushing the 27-year-old to bring his A-game.
"If you look online you have to know haters that say yeah, he ain't the fastest man in the world, he ain't got the world's fastest tine, but yeah, he beat the guy who had the fastest time, so how can you deny that he ain't the world's fastest man?" Gatlin quipped on the Ready Set Go podcast.
USA’s Lyles brought his ‘main character energy’ to the Paris 2024 Games and it paid off, as he ran the 100m race of his life to take the Olympic title in front of a mesmerised crowd at the Stade de France. In the deepest men’s 100m race of all time, the six-time world gold medalist dipped to victory in a PB of 9.79, pipping Jamaica’s world leader Kishane Thompson by just five thousandths of a second.
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16:20 - 22.12.2024
Why Justin Gatlin believes 'closest' Paris 2024 Olympic 100m final will be start of many special battles between Lyles, Thompson & Co
Why Justin Gatlin believes epic 100 meter final at Paris Olympics, which has gone down as the closest race in Olympic history, will give rise to even more competitive showdowns in 2025.
At the 2023 World Athletics Championships held in Budapest, Lyles won the 100m with a personal best of 9.83. Gatlin maintained that the authorities don't want to give Lyles the fastest man title.
"With the fans behind you, you are the fastest man living at 9.45. But we all know that Bolt is the fastest man alive at 9.58 but I'm just saying they don't want to give it to him," he said.
He added: "He beat the person who y'all wanted him to beat. He did it. Right now like I said, we're sitting back, watching the Noh show until somebody dethrones Noah. He is the world and Olympic champion at the same time. He is the king that those are the facts. You can't peel back the facts, he is the king of sprints."
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