The 100 meter race made history at the Paris Olympics. The photo finish had to be used to make it appear that the American Noah Lyles he cut the “thread” first with a difference of five thousandths of a second from the second Kishan Thompson!
This is one of the fastest “duels” in the event as all 8 finalists finished in times under 10 seconds. The 27-year-old Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles “wrote” 9.79” ., the Jamaican Thompson the same year, the “bronze” Fred Curley 9.81, o Akani Sibin 9.82”, o Lamont Jacobs 9.85”, o Lechile Tebogo 9.86”, o Kenneth Bedarek 9.88″ and o Oblique Seville 9,91”.
The 100 meter race
Sta street racingthe athlete’s finish is determined from the moment his torso crosses the finish line. Although in the examination of the photo finish it appeared that some of Lyles’ teammates had managed to set their foot there first, although the 27-year-old Olympic gold medalist who was running in the seventh row, had managed to show his chest.
The official photo finish from the Men’s 100 meter final with Noah Lyles winning gold pic.twitter.com/L9pKkkZmuW
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) August 4, 2024
Who is Noah Lyles?
The 27-year-old Lyles he carried the bronze medal he won in the 200m. at the Tokyo Olympics. In fact, according to reports, he had put it in the suitcase he prepared for Paris with the aim of reminding him… what color his next medal should not be.
I have Asthma, allergies, dyslexia, ADD, anxiety, and Depression.
But I will tell you that what you have does not define what you can become.
Why Not You!— Noah Lyles, OLY (@LylesNoah) August 4, 2024
This is an athlete who has learned to engage the media as he is not afraid to express his opinion, but also to share information about his life, with the aim of passing the messages he wants.
“I have asthma, allergies, dyslexia, anxiety and depression. But I tell you that all this does not determine what I can achieve. Why not you too?’ he wrote to X a few hours after the triumph in Paris.
Lyles had to deal with asthma attacks since his childhood, so he attended school lessons from home. “Asthma affects everything I do, even my psychology,” he told CNN in 2020. To cope with as few problems as possible in his daily life, he constantly washes his hands, takes vitamin C and drinks warm water with lemon.
The battle with asthma led to frequent hospital visits and a weak immune system. “From the age of 3 to 7 I had frequent asthma attacks. I was in the hospital every three nights, coughing all the time and being sick,” Lyles recalls.
With the help of tonsil surgery, a careful diet and the support of his mother, he eventually managed to return to school, where he struggled with dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder. “I was diagnosed in the second grade, I was constantly being tested, and even the simplest exercises in spelling seemed like a mountain to me,” he noted in another interview.
“World Champions?”
Having the courage of his opinion, Lyles had gone on a mini-outburst that pitted him against the system and the NBA stars. Having won the gold medal as a member of the 4X100 team he did not hesitate to express his displeasure at the fact that the team that wins the title in the basketball league calls itself the “World Champions”.
“World champion of what?” (whose World Champions?) Lyles had wondered, opening the bag of wind. “Don’t get me wrong, I love the USA, sometimes, but this is not the world. We are the world, we have here almost every country fighting for its flag triumphing giving everything, there are no flags in the NBA”he added.
Lyles’ – by many – logical outburst even prompted several NBA stars to mock him. “Someone help him…” he wrote on social media Kevin Durant, while the Draymond Green he replied “when playing it smart goes wrong”. THE Kendrick Perkins no, he had commented: “Put his mind into a bird and the bird will start flying backwards!”
A year later, several of those who had variously commented on Lyles’ outburst publicly acknowledged his great achievement. “Now you can’t tell him the slightest thing,” one of the veteran NBA stars wrote to X a few minutes after the legendary race. And he was right…
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