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Tyreek Hill's race with Noah Lyles is off for 'personal reasons' but that didn't stop him from getting the last word anyway
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Tyreek Hill, I'm afraid your next viral moment will have to wait. 

Hill, the oft-maligned Miami Dolphins receiver who is looking to rehab his image on the field after a regression in production in 2024, has been angling to race Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles for quite some time now. The online feud has seen barbs exchanged intermittently on and off for the better part of a year, with both Hill and Lyles separately hyping up the prospect of a race this offseason. 

As it turns out, there is no race to be run. 

Hill tried to spark the buzz further by winning his 100m heat in California on Friday, running a 10.15s time before shading Lyles after the fact. But Lyles shared the news during an event overseas that the race between himself and Hill has been cancelled. 

"We were very deep into creating the event. In fact, it was supposed to happen this weekend...unfortunately, there were some things, complications, personal reasons that it just didn't come to pass, but we were full on. We were going to shut down New York's Times Square and everything, it was going to be a lot of fun." - Noah Lyles on his potential race against Tyreek Hill

Hill, in the most 'Tyreek Hill' way possible, has chimed in upon the public announcement of what he has almost certainly known for quite some time. If the event was originally scheduled for this weekend, there's no way all parties involved didn't know that this had fallen through prior to early this week given the logistics Lyles laid out as a part of the plan. Nevertheless, Hill still trolled Lyles after the news broke, presumably getting the last word on the event this summer.

On the football side of things, the Miami Dolphins franchise can collectively exhale. After Hill's outburst at the end of last season, the prospect of running it back for 2025 was always going to be a daunting task. Hill's salary is fully guaranteed, however, making him a difficult player to move on from this year. Hill potentially running a race against an Olympic sprinter would be exactly the kind of circus that the Dolphins, in their effort to re-channel their direction as a team, are surely glad to avoid. 

Miami is nearly to the finish line of a return to full-on football activities for the season — they must first make it through the five plus weeks of offseason before training camp opens and Hill can be apart of the daily routine at the team facility. What Hill does with that time in between? That's where the ground has been a bit shaky in the past. But we know one thing Tyreek Hill will not be doing with his free time over the course of the next five weeks. 

Racing Noah Lyles. 

This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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