Lyles silenced his critics on Sunday.
Milliseconds separated the gold, silver and bronze medal winners at the men’s 100-meter final in the Paris Olympics on Sunday. It then took several seconds for theto be completed and the winner of the race to be revealed. But after what felt like a lifetime, U.S. sprinterLyles finished with a personal best time of 9.784 seconds, just 0.005 or five-thousandths of a second ahead of Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, who took home silver . Team USA’s Fred Kerley finished .
After Lyles was declared the 100-meter champion, the 27-year-old immediately ripped off his race bib, went to the first camera he saw and sent America a simple message.Noah Lyles earns the title of fastest man in the world at the 2024 Olympic Games in the 100m dash with a time of 9.79 seconds! 🥇Lyles then walked his walk around the Olympic track holding up his name on his race bib while hyping up the packed audience at Stade de France.
Lyles is the first American man to clinch Olympic gold in the event since Justin Gatlin won gold in the 2004 Athens Games. Lyles is looking to become the first man to win both the 100-meter and 200-meter events in an Olympics since Usain Bolt.Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020.
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