Lyles wins Olympic 100 meters gold by five thousandths of a second

America wins yet again?!

"Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79 seconds to claim gold in a dramatic men's Olympic 100 meters final in Paris on Sunday."

So that's: USA 19 26 26 71

Wow!

a mere 200m bronze.

odd use of 'mere', any medal earned in the Olympics or any major competition should be considered an honor well-deserved.

Headline should just say the closest finish in history. No record of closer finishes in the pre-camera days of the first Olympics.

Wow! I thought Thompson had it all the way. Sad for Jamaica but happy for America. Look at the medals table now. Where are all the posters who were crowing about Japan having more gold? The silence is deafening! The U.S. is tied for the lead in golds now, more than DOUBLE Japan's total and is obliterating the field in total medals. Read it and weep. American dominance!

I'm glad the Americans finally matched Ben Johnson's time from 1988. Carl Lewis got popped with ephedrine over the limit at the US Trials, but was included on their team anyway.

He said he was going to beat Usain Bolt's record. I guess that didn't happen.

Lyles won in the closest Olympic 100 meters finish in modern history -- just five thousandths of a second separated him from Jamaica's Kishane Thompson who clocked the same time of 9.79 seconds.

It made Lyles the first American, male or female, to win the event since Justin Gatlin took gold in the 2004 Athens Games.

"It's the one I wanted," said Lyles. "It's the hard battle, it's the amazing opponents. "Everybody's healthy, everybody came prepared for the fight and I wanted to prove that I'm the man among all of them. I'm the wolf amongst wolves."

Fastest men in the world! All the favorites made it to the final! The closest ever finish, everybody bunched up - it came down to the thousandths of a second!

And this is also the first time in 2 decades the US placed 2 runners on the podium

Lol, and this is Lyles' "hard battle" because this is not Lyles' favorite event - his favorite is the 200m

He said he was going to beat Usain Bolt's record. I guess that didn't happen.

He still has time, tho not very likely. Nobody else still has come close to Bolt's 2009 100m world record

The women's 100m world record is even harder. The US' Florence Griffith-Joyner set the world record way back in 1988 - 36 years still hasn't been broken!

I'm glad the Americans finally matched Ben Johnson's time from 1988.

The Americans have surpassed Ben Johnson's best-ever 9.95s plenty of times (and so do other Canadians)

But why would ya use Johnson's 1988 time when he was DQed for steroids? Doesn't matter - Americans have already surpassed that too anyway:

https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/sprints/100-metres/all/men/senior?regionType=countries&region=usa&timing=electronic&windReading=regular&page=1&bestResultsOnly=false&firstDay=1899-12-30&lastDay=2024-08-03&maxResultsByCountry=all&eventId=10229630&ageCategory=senior

The US' Tyson Gay's 9.69s is only surpassed by Bolt's

Carl Lewis got popped with ephedrine over the limit at the US Trials, but was included on their team anyway.

The US did disqualify him, but his appeal was successful via the IAAF Medical Committee that he had taken the stimulants inadvertently through an over-the-counter herbal remedy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/2989361.stm

The nine-time Olympic gold medallist has been given the all-clear by the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF), despite being named as one of eight athletes to test positive for banned substances in low concentration at the US Olympic trials in Indianapolis.

The USOC first disqualified Lewis before accepting his appeal that he had taken the stimulants inadvertently through an over-the-counter herbal remedy.

The IAAF said in a statement: "The IAAF Medical Committee felt satisfied, however, on the basis of the information received that the cases had been properly concluded by the USOC as 'negative cases' in accordance with rules and regulations in place at the time and no further action was taken.

"For this reason, the athletes concerned ... who went on to compete at the Olympic Games in Seoul were eligible to do so in accordance with IAAF Rules."

That was so, so close!

Maybe they should’ve awarded 2 gold medals.

The runner from Japan was so close to making the final. They will be hard to beat in the relay with him. Also Japan has done very well in these Olympics considering their population is much smaller than many countries.

JapantimeToday  01:17 pm JST

The runner from Japan was so close to making the final. They will be hard to beat in the relay with him. Also Japan has done very well in these Olympics considering their population is much smaller than many countries.

You clearly don't know what the current population of Japan is. Take a look at the medals chart on the main page. There are only 2 countries with a larger population than Japan. All the rest have much smaller populations than Japan.

I've never seen such a close 100m race. Amazing.

"Lyles wins Olympic 100 meters gold by five thousandths of a second."

Amazing win Lyles keep it up.

9.79 will always remind me of Ben Johnson's 1988 time in Seoul. Of course, if he were competing today, he said he could have run a 9.3 . Faster track, better shoes, better tech. He explains it in a YouTube video. Just google Ben Johnson 9.3

Also Japan has done very well in these Olympics considering their population is much smaller than many countries.

Ditto for SK then.

Also Japan has done very well in these Olympics considering their population is much smaller than many countries.

Ditto for SK then. ...and let alone for Australia with a population of 26 million. 5 times smaller than Japan.

odd use of 'mere', any medal earned in the olympics or any major competition should be considered an honor well-deserved

the whole article sounds odd... almost as if written by ai

The US' Tyson Gay's 9.69s is only surpassed by Bolt's

I think we had all forgotten about notorious drug cheat Tyson Gay.

I think we had all forgotten about notorious drug cheat Tyson Gay.

Yeah, who's Gay?

Hats off to medal winners Noah Lyles,  Kishane Thompson, and Fred Kerley.

I think we had all forgotten about notorious drug cheat Tyson Gay

Gay did take PEDs late in his career, but he wasn't notorious for it. In fact, he was known for the opposite.

https://www.heraldandnews.com/sports/professional/gay-failed-multiple-ped-tests/article_4aaafbbc-f67c-11e2-84d9-001a4bcf887a.html

Three people familiar with the case told the AP that Gay had multiple positives this year. One of those people said one positive came at nationals and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has notified him of that result.

One person familiar with the case told AP the multiple positives over a short period of time are a sign of an athlete who wasn’t trying to hide anything, but simply didn’t know he was taking a banned drug.

When he admitted to the earlier positive, Gay fought back tears during a phone interview.

“I don’t have a sabotage story. I don’t have any lies. I don’t have anything to say to make this seem like it was a mistake or it was on USADA’s hands, someone playing games,” he said. “I don’t have any of those stories. I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.”

Gay has already surrendered his spot at next month’s world championships. If a positive test from nationals is confirmed by his “B’’ sample, those results would be vacated, though it’s likely they would be anyway because of his May 16 positive.

Since news of his positive, media reports have linked Gay to Clayton Gibson, an anti-aging doctor based in Atlanta. In an email sent to AP, Gibson would not confirm Gay was among his patients.

Gay has been the most-watched U.S. male sprinter for the past several years and has long sold himself as a clean athlete.

The 30-year-old, who won the world championship in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay in 2007, took part in USADA’s “My Victory” program — in which athletes volunteer for enhanced testing to prove they’re clean — and his results never raised red flags.

Until, that is, the out-of-competition test in May. Results came back positive for a banned substance, the identity of which he has not been revealed.