Commentary: A historic 100 meters at the Paris Games took three times as long to determine the winner than it did for eight runners to cross the finish line.
By Barry Svrluga, The Washington PostNoah Lyles and the roaring crowd at Stade de France were unsure who had won the men's 100-meter final until after a review.
The United States' Kenny Bednarek, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson and Noah Lyles wait to find out who won the race. No matter that he had prepared for so many of his 27 years to see just that: gold medal, Olympic champion, world’s fastest human. A dozen years ago as a teenager, he watched the London Olympics from his Alexandria, Va., home. He saw Jamaican icon Usain Bolt win gold in both the 100 and 200 meters. He boldly wanted - rather, he boldlyHold on. He’s only halfway there. But what a half.
So in the years since Bolt’s retirement in 2017, no one has stepped in - or, rather, no one has strutted forward - and seized the Alpha Male role on the men’s side. Maybe that changed Sunday night, both because of how the race played out and who won it. “We started the season, a lot of people were saying it’s going to be a slow year in the 100,” Lyles said. “Well, it wasn’t no slow year in the 100!”When the gun went off, Lyles’s reaction time matched the slowest in the field. But by midway through the race, he had reestablished himself.
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