Carl Lewis praises Lyles and backs Olympic champion cash prize

Nine-time gold medallist Carl Lewis discusses Noah Lyles' 100m triumph and backs gold medal money reward

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00:00Yeah, it was tight, but the 100 meters is often very tight.

00:04For the most part, he's been running the best the last couple of years.

00:08He was world champion. He hadn't lost a really big 100 meters in a long time,

00:12so I thought that the best person won, and the one who ran the best,

00:17most prepared, definitely won it. So I thought he ran really well.

00:20Look, when I came into my career, my mentors were Bob Beeman,

00:25that in 1968, 72, 76, they hardly received anything.

00:30So I don't really look at it. I was able to take it to another level financially.

00:34I did extremely well financially. So I'm like, it's their time now.

00:39So I'm happy for it. I hope that by the next Olympic Games,

00:42we can up that to all three medalists. I don't think we should go farther than that,

00:46but I think all three medalists should be the goal for us to give some sort of

00:50financial support to the next Olympic Games around. So I support it 100%.