That concludes our coverage of tonight’s track & field events in Paris 2024 Olympic gold medal. In addition to winning the world championship, Noah Lyles becomes the most rapid individual on the earth by winning the Olympic gold medal 100-meter.
In the men’s hammers throw, Ethan Katzberg becoming the first Canadian to win the Olympic gold medal. Additionally, Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine defeats Nicola Olyslagers of Australia to win the gold medal in the women’s high jump at the Olympic.
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Day nine of our news of the Paris Olympic gold medal 2024 is about to come to an end, but do return on Monday for more live coverage. Today is the men’s football semifinals, and we have an incredible lineup for you!
In the preliminary semifinal, which begins at 16:00 GMT, European winners Spain will play African heavyweights Morocco. We begin to address at 13:00 GMT. The second semifinal match against hosts France and Egypt begins at 19:00 GMT, but we’ll start bringing you all the anticipation at 16:00 GMT.
When asked if he was trusting of doubling up in the 200m, a distance for which he is a three-time world winner, Noah Lyles answered without hesitation, “100 percent.” “That’s my better incident and now that I’ve got an all-time record in the 100, I’m ready to take it to the 200.” Despite walking away from the Tokyo Olympic gold medal to expel the demons of his bronze-winning finish in the 200m three years prior.
The race went like this: Lyles got off to a disappointing start but quickly settled into with ease pattern, beginning in lane seven, outside Letsile Tebogo of Lesotho and outside Oblique Sevilla of South Africa. The United States athlete opened up with his forehead tucked down to the 40-meter mark, but the entire field pressed him all across the field.
The audience went wild when Lyles dipped for the line, followed quickly by Jamaican Kishane Thompson, and a photo-finish was announced before Lyles was officially declared the gold medallist.
In 9.81 seconds, Lyles’s American partner Fred Kerley won bronze, just a hundredth of a second faster than South African Akani Simbine’s 9.82 seconds. In an incredible race, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana placed sixth in 9.86 seconds, American Kenny Bednarek finished seventh in 9.88 seconds, and Jamaican Oblique Seville placed eighth in 9.91 seconds. The reigning winner, Marcell Jacobs of Italy, finished fifth in 9.85 seconds. Only after a photo finish was the winner declared to be Lyles. Noah Lyles believed he had lost to Kishane Thompson until the final results were displayed on the display at the Stade de France.
“I went up to Kishane and I responded with, ‘I’m going to be truthful, bro, I believe you had that one,’” the American remarked on the wait for the results. And I was thinking, ‘Goodness gracious, I was ready for my name to appear alongside his. I’m quite amazing. Nonetheless, the American was ecstatic to prevail against a group of “amazing opponents” in the “hard battle.” After winning, Lyles remarked, “It’s the one I wanted.”
In a thrilling men’s final, world champion Noah Lyles blasted to victory in 9.79 seconds to take home the Olympic gold medal. With a just five a thousandth of a second separating him and Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, who both ran the same time of 9.79 seconds, his victory made history’s tightest Olympic gold medal 100-meter finish. Following Justin Gatlin’s victory in the 2004 Athens Games, Lyles became the first American to win the competition, regardless of gender.
After taking home the gold, a jubilant Noah Lyles remarks that he “couldn’t have reached out for a bigger moment.” After the race, he told the BBC, “A guy in biomechanics came down, and shortly before I went out here, he stated it was going to be like that [gestures with his fingers].” “Gosh, was he right—that’s how close it will come to be.”
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