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Budapest 2023: Letsile Tebogo, a teenage Botswanan, is shaded by Noah Lyles

Noah Lyles, the US champion, issued yet another stern warning to his competitors in response to a World Athletics post that compared him to Letsile Tebogo. World champion Noah Lyles is speaking aggressively once more. This time, he defeated Letsile Tebogo of Botswana in advance of the Budapest World Championships. As a lead-up to the men's 200m in Budapest, the World Athletics Instagram page recently published a graphic titled "The Battle of the Showmen" comparing their times as the top two quickest runners this season."You can send your best man, you gonna lose your best hitter," wrote Lyles in a comment that Tebogo and his 200-meter competitors saw as a slight.