You might think Canadians are too nice all of the time, but when it comes to the Olympics, even the prime minister is out there serving humble pie to Team USA.
Even though Noah Lyles can claim that he’s the fastest man on the planet, he can no longer say he’s never been trolled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau shut down Lyles after he got a little too cocky about the Northern nation.
It all began when Lyles was asked a question by a reporter in the World Athletics Relays back in May, and his answer would come back to haunt him just a few months later.
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The sprinter was asked whether or not he believed Team Canada would be a threat to him in the 4x100-meter tournament in Paris.
That’s when he replied: “Who? Who?”
However, he wasn’t to know the outcome of the games.
After he won the 100-meter final at the Paris Games in a photo finish, he probably thought it was going to be a sure thing he'd be picking up another few gold medals.
However, the sprinter only managed bronze in the 200m, and then dropped out of the relay altogether after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
Then Team USA got themselves disqualified from the race after a botched handover.
So the 100-metre final saw Lyles eat his words after Team Canada won gold, South Africa won Silver and Team GB won bronze.
As it turns out, Lyles was about to get a thrashing online after his defeat as fans were all over his previous comment in the spring.
One person wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “That's some bad karma right there.”
Another commented: “Makes the Canada victory even more sweet. Agree?”
Someone else wrote: “Who?? #TeamCanada That’s who”.
But no comment was better than that of Canada’s prime minister who swiftly reposted the infamous interview of Lyles and captioned it: “Sorry.”
He then added an emoji of a gold medal. That’s a burn like no other.
But it wasn’t just the Government. Letsile Tebogo, who won Gold in the 200m for Botswana also got a dig in.
During his postgame presser, he made sure to let the world know that he doesn’t fly with arrogance or responses that put down other nations and their teams.
He said: "I can't be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah [Lyles]."
One person wrote: “Cocky and arrogant. Can’t be mad at Tebogo for calling him what he is.”
Another mocked him: “Classic cocky American.”
Lyles recently gave his fans an update that he’s now ‘Covid free’.
Someone soon trolled him for that too and replied to his post that he ‘only had Tebogo Letsile side effects lool’.
Another said: “Oh Woow, your Covid recovery was faster than your 200 metres run.”
Ouch.
Britt Jones