Hughes tells Lyles: I'll talk with the spikes

United States sprint star Noah Lyles has a last competitive track outing at the London Diamond League on July 20 before heading across the English Channel to the Paris Olympics.

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The American, who won the 100m and 200m titles at the 2023 world championships in Budapest, will run the shorter sprint in his continuing bid to set himself up as the true successor to the retired legend Usain Bolt.

But he will be up against Britain's Anguilla-born Zharnel Hughes, who won bronze behind him in Hungary, and the dangerous duo of world silver medallist Letsile Tebogo of Botswana and South Africa's Akani Simbine.

"I'm looking forward to London, I feel it's going to be special," said Hughes, who was disqualified from the 100m final at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics won by Italy's Marcell Jacobs.

"It's the last Diamond League before the Games, it's going to bestacked and I want to lay something down there."