Noah Lyles recently warned newbie Jordan Anthony, who will be competing against him at the upcoming USATF Indoor Championships. Lyles is gearing up for a roller coaster ride in the current season after having won the Diamond League as well as the World Championships last year. The reigning Olympic champion had also clinched the top honors at the 2025 US Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Noah Lyles Sends Out a Warning to Jordan Anthony
The official Instagram page of sports portal FloTrack uploaded a conversation with Noah Lyles, where he talked about his aim for the upcoming USATF Championships [Indoors].
The Indoor Championships will be held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, New York City, from today [i.e., March 28] to tomorrow [i.e., March 1]. The reigning indoor champion warned Anthony not to take him lightly, as he mentioned,
“Look, at the end of day, people are going to ask, what does this really matter for? And, if your answer, is really, go to the world Indoor, you’re thinking the wrong way. What they really talking about is how Jordan to get his butt kicked by me. Because if anybody here thinks that I’m about to let this belt go anywhere [referring to the USATF Indoor title], you don’t know Noah Lyles.”
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For the uninitiated, Anthony is a 21-year-old rising sensation in American athletics who won both the SEC and NCAA Championships last year. The sprinter represented the Arkansas Razorbacks at the championships and holds a personal best of 9.95 seconds.
Lyles had previously maintained that he would mark his presence yet again this year. After missing out on the top spot in the 300m race at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix held in January, the 28-year-old mentioned,
“The plan was to go all out. Everything this year is going to be all out as much as I can from the very get-go. Jump off the cliff. You know, can’t be scared to jump off the cliff. So, that’s why I, by the end of that race I was exhausted. So, that means that I did what I set out to do.”
Lyles ended the USA’s men’s 100m Olympic gold medal drought at the Paris Olympics. The then 27-year-old sprinting sensation became the first American sprinter to clinch the gold medal after Justin Gatlin, when he edged out Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson by a microsecond to win the race.
