0.005 seconds narrow victory! American star Lyles crowned the new Olympic 100m champion
2024-08-12
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In a 100-meter "sprint battle" that will go down in history, American star Lyles was crowned the new king with a slight advantage of 0.005 seconds.
In the early morning of August 5th, Beijing time, the men's 100m final of the Paris Olympics staged a dream showdown on the purple track of the Stade de France. Lyles won the championship with a personal best of 9.79 seconds, only 0.005 seconds ahead of Jamaican star Thompson in the thousandth place. American star Corley won the bronze medal with a score of 9.81 seconds. The US team won the men's 100m gold medal again 20 years after the 2004 Athens Olympics.
This may be the most competitive men's 100m final in all the Olympic Games and World Track and Field Championships, and the semi-finals more than an hour ago were already tense. In the first group, Jamaican athlete Seviler ran 9.81 seconds, and Lyles ranked second with 9.83 seconds; in the second group, defending champion Jacobs ran 9.92 seconds; in the third group, Jamaican star Thompson ran 9.80 seconds, and Tokyo Olympic men's 100m silver medalist Corley ran 9.84 seconds. In the semi-finals, Japanese athlete Sunny Brown set a new personal best of 9.96 seconds, and South African newcomer Richardson ran 9.95 seconds, but both failed to qualify for the final. The threshold for the men's 100m sprint battle is as high as 9.93 seconds.
In the men's 100m final, from the start to the sprint, the eight runners were always neck and neck. At the moment of crossing the finish line, it was difficult to tell who was the final winner with the naked eye. In the end, the high-speed camera confirmed that Lyles won the championship with a slight advantage of 0.005 seconds. All eight runners in the final broke the ten-second mark, which is the first time in Olympic history. Seven of them ran under 9.90 seconds. The champion and the eighth place were only 0.12 seconds apart. The competition was very fierce.
Since Gatlin won the men's 100m gold medal for the US team at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Jamaican sprinter Bolt has dominated the 100m track for three consecutive times, and Italian athlete Jacobs won the championship in the Tokyo Olympics, making the US team miss the men's 100m gold medal for 20 consecutive years. After winning the men's 100m and men's 200m championships at the Budapest World Championships, Lyles has now been crowned the new king of the 100m. He not only helped the US team regain lost ground, but also gradually completed the dual monopoly of the men's 100m and 200m, striving to create his own era.
Text｜Reporter Chai Zhi
Photo | Xinhua News Agency
