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Plaudits continue to pour in for Noah Lyles after his memorable triumph at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris as Terence Crawford and Jake Paul congratulate the sprinter for his 100m victory.
The tightest race in history saw just 0.12 separate Lyles' gold from last place, demanding a photo-finish to figure out who would claim the top spot between the American or Jamaica's Kishane Thompson.
As it turned out, Lyles crossed the line 0.005 faster than his colleague to become the first American winner since Justin Gatlin in 2004 and some of professional sports' biggest names came to congratulate him.
"Congratulations @LylesNoah did you thang!!!!," Crawford posted to X.com, formerly Twitter, on August 4 just one after he managed to win the super-welterweight title from Israil Madrimov to stake his claim to be the best boxer of all-time.
Crawford now holds a 41-0-0 record with 31 KOs with the win on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles and he has been a champion in the lightweight, light-middleweight, light-welterweight and welterweight, highlighting the caliber of sportspersons who tuned in to see Lyles compete.
Jake Paul reacts
Another big name in boxing also weighed in too as the ever-controversial Jake Paul praised Lyles for his ability to walk the walk and back up his talk following his comments made through 2023 and even as recently as June 2024.
Lyles had been defeated in the Racer Grand Prix and warned his competitors to fear him and how he would respond to being beaten, before he went on to take gold two months later on the highest stage of them all for a sprinter.
"Congrats to Noah Lyles," Paul posted to X.com. "Everyone talks s**t, but he's him, so you can't hate."
Paul, meanwhile, prepares to face Iron Mike Tyson in his next professional boxing match on November 15 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in a fight streamed by Netflix.