Watch: USA's Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold in thrilling photo finish
ABOVE VIDEO: Noah Lyles won his first Olympic gold medal in an epic photo finish, edging Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by five thousandths of a second. American Fred Kerley took bronze. Can't see the above video? Click here.
How close was the race for "fastest man in the world?" It came down to a photo finish.
Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100 meters by .005 seconds Sunday, waiting some 30 seconds after the finish of one of the closest sprints in history to find out he바카라 게임 웹사이트d beaten Kishane Thompson of Jamaica.
The word 바카라 게임 웹사이트Photo바카라 게임 웹사이트 popped up on the scoreboard next to the names of Lyles, Thompson and five others after they crossed the line. Lyles paced the track with his hands draped over his head. Finally, the numbers came up. Lyles won in 9.784 seconds to edge out the Jamaican by five-thousandths of a tick of the clock.
America바카라 게임 웹사이트s Fred Kerley came in third at 9.81. The top seven all finished within .09 of each other.
This was the closest 1-2 finish in the 100 since at least Moscow in 1980 바카라 게임 웹사이트 or maybe even ever. Back then, Britain바카라 게임 웹사이트s Allan Wells narrowly beat Silvio Leonard in an era when the electronic timers didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t go down into the thousandths of a second.
Lyles became the first American to win the marquee event in Olympic track since Justin Gatlin in 2004. The 9.784 also marks a personal best for Lyles.
He will be a favorite later this week in the 200 meters 바카라 게임 웹사이트 his better race 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and will try to join Usain Bolt as the latest runner to win both Olympic sprints.