Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Day 9 of the 2024 Paris Olympics provided a 100 meters race for the ages, world records for U.S. swimmers, and Olympic gold for stars who have achieved championship greatness elsewhere.
PHOTO: Noah Lyles of the U.S crosses the finish line to win the men's 100m final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Aug. 4, 2024. (Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images) Lyles was the defending world ...
NOAH LYLES WINS GOLD IN A PHOTO FINISH 🥇 ... USA's Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the men's 100m final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint ...
The photo finish revealed Tebogo in second, one one thousandth ahead of Hughes for bronze with Seville only three thousandths behind him. Tebogo's version of 9.88 improved on his own Botswana national record for the seventh time; his silver medal was the first won by an African man in the 100m at the world championships. [2]
This was the thirtieth time that the men's 100 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics.Interestingly the final contained 6 men who had recorded top-25 all-time records in the 100m, making this final one of the most tightly contested in history, as the difference between the fastest man in the field Fred Kerley (9.76) and the slowest Kenny Bednarek (9.87) was only 0.11 seconds.
This was the first Olympics where official results were given to the nearest 1/100 seconds. Later iterations of photo finish system began using film to record and display times, including AccuTrack that used slit technology to record images over time at the finish line to Polaroid Instant Film. Accutrack was the most popular photo-finish camera ...
Paris 2024 Olympics - Athletics - Men's 100m Final - Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France - August 04, 2024. Noah Lyles of United States crosses the line to win gold.
In today's edition: Lyles wins gold in photo finish, Djokovic tops Alcaraz, USA swimming keeps 120-year streak alive, the high school that won't stop producing Olympians, $1 million Yahoo Fantasy ...