00:00Hi, I'm Sean Gregory from Time at the Stade de France, north of Paris.
00:05This stadium just hosted the most incredible, contested, exciting, dramatic 100-meter
00:13Olympic final in recent memory, if not history. Noah Lyles pulls out the gold medal in 9.784
00:24over Kashane Thompson of Jamaica, who finished in 9.789 seconds. 5,000th of a second difference.
00:35An unbelievable race. I was sitting right at the finish line, saw Lyles get off to a
00:41slow start. His reaction time was the slowest in the race, but he has great top-end speed,
00:49meaning he can get off to a slow start and make up for it in the last 50, 40 meters.
00:54And he did that. You could see him charging, but you didn't know if he got close enough.
01:00There seemed to be four or five runners at the finish who could have won the race. So
01:04the race ends. There's a lot of confusion. People are looking up at the board. Fred Curley at one
01:10point just went first on the board, but he wound up finishing in third. Noah Lyles went up to
01:16Thompson and said, you've got a big dog. He thought Thompson had it because Lyles couldn't
01:21see Thompson because he was a few lanes away. But the board finally showed Noah Lyles' name,
01:26and he becomes the first American man to win the premier race in track and field, the 100 meters,
01:34in 20 years. An incredible night here at the track stadium, and more to come as Noah Lyles
01:40runs the 200 meters on Thursday and is already guaranteed that victory. We shall see.
01:45I'm Sean Gregory reporting for TIME.
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