PARIS — Bold-talking American sprinting star Noah Lyles arrived at the Paris Olympics announcing his intentions of leaving with four gold medals.
The 27-year-old from Virginia won his first Olympic gold medal Sunday by bolting to the 100-meter title in a personal-best 9.79 seconds in front of a deafening, sold-out Stade de France crowd.
Lyles froze when it showed he had prevailed by one of the narrowest margins — five-thousandths of a second.
Lyles is the first American to win the Olympic 100-meter since 2004.
By the finish time, it was one of the hardest gold medals to earn, too.
Persons:
Noah Lyles, bolting, Lyles, Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, Fred Kerley, “, Italy’s Marcell Jacobs, Thompson, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, Kerley, Kenny Bednarek, ” Lyles, Louie Hinchcliffe
Organizations:
PARIS, Paris Olympics, Virginia, Stade de France, Tokyo
Locations:
American, Budapest, U.S, Seville