FINALLY! USA has secured gold in the men’s 100m race for the first time in 20 years, thanks to the fastest man on the planet, Noah Lyles.
Don’t you just love it when the smack talk gets backed up with a win? Normally, there isn’t much beef in these Olympic events but Lyles took his loss to Jamaica’s Oblique Seville back in June personally and made sure every camera at the 2024 Paris Olympics heard his plans of securing gold.
He even tweeted this after the race in June addressing Seville’s stare-down as he crossed the finish line:
Well, I think he remembered because he then proceeded to do this:
The beef was real but Lyles was the one in the end to walk away victorious and with his first ever gold Olympic medal. He is the first American to do so since Justin Gatlin do so in 2004.
It’s not like Lyles just dusted his opponents, however. Although he finished with a personal-best 9.784-second time to secure gold, Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, who posted the world’s fastest time heading into this event (9.77 seconds), was RIGHT THERE –– finishing just .005 seconds behind Lyles.
Look at this awesome photo finish!
Before any of today’s heats began, Lyles opened at +130 odds on DraftKings Sportsbook but heading into the men’s 100m final, his odds shot up to +300 as both Seville and Thompson of Jamaica performed well and had an edge. That didn’t scare many bettors away, though, as Lyles commanded 81% of the bets placed on the event on DraftKings Sportsbook with over 64% of the money.
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