Only 0.005 sec (five thousandths) separated the gold and the silver in the 100 meters men’s final today.
“Forget the feet, it’s the clavicle,” explained NBC’s Mike Tirico on what determined the winner. The thin red line drawn from Noah Lyle’s 🇺🇸 (third from the bottom) indicates that he gets the gold. Gold Noah Lyles 🇺🇸 9.79 Silver Kishane Thompson 🇯🇲 9.79 Bronze Fred Kerley 🇺🇸United States 9.81 4 Akani Simbine 🇿🇦 9.82American sprinter Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the gold medal in in the men’s 100-meters final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday in Saint-Denis, France. [Photo by Martin Meissner/AP and posted on npr.org]
