Sunday, Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100 meters by.005 seconds. He had to wait around 30 seconds to learn that he had defeated Jamaican Kishane Thompson in the grueling race.Lyles and Thompson raced to the line, and the word “Photo” appeared on the scoreboard. With his hands thrown over his head, Lyles paced the track. At last, the figures were displayed. With a time of 9.784 seconds, Lyles defeated the Jamaican competitor by 0.0005 seconds.Lyles remarked, “I did think Thompson had it at the end.” “Bro, I think you got that one big dog,” I even added. And then I saw my name, and I thought, “Oh my god, I’m so amazing.”Third place went to Fred Kerley of America.
9.81. The final seven places were all within 09 of one another.Since 1980, at the very least, Moscow, this was the closest 1-2 finish in the 100, if not ever. Back then, in a time before electronic timers could be set to the thousandth of a second, Allan Wells of Britain defeated Silvio Leonard by a small margin.
Thankfully, they do now.
Donovan Bailey of Canada, the 1996 Olympic 100-meter champion from Atlanta, called the race “incredible.”
Bailey told CBC Sports that it “shows exactly how technical the 100 metre is.”100-meter Olympic gold Noah Lyles
At that level of competition, a single error may mean the difference between an Olympic champion and a runner-up finish.
After Justin Gatlin’s victory in 2004 in the Olympic track competition, Lyles became the first American to win the main event.
In addition, Lyles’s 9.784 sets a new personal best for him. He has been promising to inject his own energy into the race, and this time he delivered.He will be a favourite later this week in the 200 metres — his better race — and will try to join Usain Bolt as the latest runner to win both Olympic sprints.For perspective, the blink of an eye takes, on average, .1 second, which was 20 times longer than the gap between first and second in this one.
What changed, and why? Perhaps Lyles’s quick closing speed and line-jumping style. Along with Thompson, he had two of the three slowest blasts from the blocks, and at the halfway point, Thompson had what amounted to a “lead”.
To decide on this, though, would take more than ten seconds. Lyles hoisted his name tag to the sky, removed it, put his hands by his sides, and pointed at the camera after realizing he had won.
He is, in fact, the fastest man alive. But not by much.
De Grasse does not make the first-ever Olympic final 100-meter Olympic gold Noah Lyles
Andre De Grasse still hasn’t quite realized how he feels.
The six-time Olympian from Markham, Ontario, placed fifth in the men’s 100-meter semifinal race on Sunday at Stade de France.
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