The American showman edged out Jamaica's Kishane Thompson on Sunday by five-thousandths of a second - that's .005 of one tick of the clock - in a race for the ages.
Noah Lyles paced on the far end of the track, hands folded over the top of his head, wistfully looking up at a scoreboard that would, sooner or later, flash an answer he's been seeking over three sweat-soaked years.
It was so close, that when the sprinters crossed the line and the word "Photo" popped up next to the names of Lyles, Thompson and five others in the eight-man field, Lyles walked over to the Jamaican and said "I think you got the Olympics dog." In the photo finish, Kerley's orange shoe crossed the line before anyone, or anything. But it's the chest breaking the barrier that counts. Lyles' chest crossed first.Back then, Britain's Allan Wells narrowly beat Silvio Leonard in an era when the electronic timers didn't go into the thousandths of a second. The same was true in 1932, when Eddie Tolan won the Olympics' first ever photo finish.
Lyles is hoping to go even bigger than that, and maybe take this sport back to a day when it was Carl Lewis and Edwin Moses lighting up the track - a must-see affair, the likes of which Lyles headlined in front of around 80,000 on a warm night at the Stade de France.
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