Noah Lyles catches Jamaica's Kishane Thompson to claim title of world's fastest man.
SAINT DENIS , France — The disconnected lights suddenly threw an 80,000-seat stadium into darkness and signaled that the main event was imminent. Bracelets that had been handed out to each spectator lit up all at once, and rows of pink dots flashed above the lavender-colored track in a shimmering mass. Like something alive.
's Louie Hinhcliffe just misses final On Sunday night at the Stade de France, an American earned the title of fastest man in the world and gave the Olympics exactly what they deserve. Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter final in a photo finish, his chest crossing the line five one-thousandths of a second before Kishane Thompson’s chest, a race so close that neither man was sure at first who had won, a race so close it was denoted by parentheticals on the official score sheet. Lyles, 9.79 .
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