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Noah Lyles of the United States celebrates after winning the men’s 100m dash and the gold medal during track and field at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. SAINT-DENIS, France — Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100 meters by .005 seconds Sunday, waiting some 30 seconds after the finish of an excruciatingly close sprint to find out he’d beaten Kishane Thompson of Jamaica.
The 9.784 also marks a personal best for Lyles, who has been promising to add his own brand of excitement to track and certainly delivered this time. 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.DIMES: Through the noise, Steve Kerr is doing a great job with Team USA, actually
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