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Usain Bolt Tells Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill To “Say Less” After Challenge

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After sprint legend Usain Bolt was called “old and washed up” and challenged to a 40-yard race by NFL player Tyreek Hill this week, he confidently responded on Twitter with two simple words: “Say less,” which is also the title of his February-released single.

The challenge came on Friday, a day after Bolt boasted to sports analyst, Pat McAfee that Hill, who is a wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL, would have no chance in a race.

Tyreek, 27, fired back and told reporters on Friday that: “Usain Bolt got out of the game for a reason, right?”

“He’s old, he’s washed up, and he can’t see me in 40 yards. Hundred-yard dash, yes, that’s what he do. But 40-yard dash, if you’re recording this, Usain Bolt, you cannot see me,” Tyreek declared.

Bolt stated, however, that he could easily beat Tyreek Hill wearing sweats and street shoes, the way he did that time at the NFL Scouting Combine, when he ran a 4.22-second on the 40-yard stretch.

It was during the 2019 NFL Experience in Atlanta, when the then 33-year-old track star matched Bengals receiver John Ross, who two years prior produced the fastest 40 in the history of the Scouting Combine.

What started the back and forth was when Bolt told McAfee that Tyreek had previously urged him to set up a race.

“Me and Tyreek Hill got into it,” he explained.  “He was talking ‘blah blah blah … but then I went to the Combine one year, and if you go on the net right now, I ran 4.22 in my sweats and some street shoes.”

“I was like, ‘Come on, Tyreek Hill. You got no chance!’”

Tyreek caught wind of the interview and hopped on social media to challenge Bolt to finally put his money where his mouth is.  “Line up then,” Hill said. “Stop hiding.”

Yesterday, he again, reiterated that he most definitely could beat Usain and wrote on Twitter, “I said what I said.”

Not backing down, but still unbothered Usain simply countered, “Say less” with a lightning bolt icon.

Though short and to the point, it was the perfect response from the legendary sprinter, since he produced an entire song called Say Less that’s about ‘setting his own trends’.  When the track was released in February, it was widely considered to be a response to criticism from Dancehall deejay Popcaan, who had rubbished an earlier released single and Bolt’s overall music-making efforts.

The retired Jamaican track and field star is regarded across the globe as the greatest sprinter of all time. He is to date, the world record holder in the 100m, 200m and 4 × 100m relays and an eight-time Olympic gold medalist, maintaining the title as the only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m at three consecutive Olympics and 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay at the World Championships from 2009 to 2015.

Watch Usain Bolt and his ‘A-Team’ crew with NJ, BiBi and Kamal in the single Say Less here:

Here’s what fans are saying about the back and forth.

https://twitter.com/ChiefsOut/status/1421560781221494784

https://twitter.com/_VeiledThreats_/status/1421550604120248320

https://twitter.com/WhoCam/status/1421483353014951938