USA's Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold in thrilling photo finish
PARIS — For months, Noah Lyles has aggressively chased the spotlight. He invited Netflix cameras to trail him wherever he goes, strutted the runways of Milan and Paris and offered himself up as a guest on the late-night talk-show circuit.
Whenever a microphone or camera is nearby, Lyles hasn’t been shy about laying out his grandiose goals for the Paris Olympics. America’s fastest man has told anyone who will listen how he intends to eclipse the legendary Usain Bolt, how he hopes to capture four Olympic gold medals, how he’d like to return home a world-record holder.
“Now you’re going on the Mount Rushmore,” he recently explained to the "Tonight Show’s" Jimmy Fallon. “Now you’re the greatest of the great.”
The first chance for Lyles to back up his audacious talk finally arrived Sunday night when 80,000 roaring fans jammed into Stade de France to watch track and field’s glamor race. Lyles took his place alongside seven rivals for the Olympic 100-meter final. For someone, the title of world’s fastest man was just a sub-10-second sprint away.
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