Noah Lyles has revealed that he thought Kishane Thompson had won their Olympic 100m final. The United States sprinter is the new Olympic champion following a dramatic end to the men’s 100m final in Paris on Sunday evening. A photo finish was required to split Lyles and Thompson , who was the favourite heading into the race after his impressive time of 9.
80 seconds earlier in the semi final. But Lyles finished 0.005 seconds ahead of Thompson and the 27-year-old has now won the first Olympic gold medal of his career.
‘It was a very close race,’ Lyles told Jamaican broadcaster SportsMax TV after his victory. ‘I’m glad I had Oblique Seville next to me because I was like, ‘yo, I need someone to put that pressure on me early’. I know that in a lot of races he’s been one or two lanes away from me and he’s been able to be get out just in that acceleration phase and I’ve just been missing it.
I was like, ‘nah, now that you’re right next to me I’ll make sure I cover that’. ‘And then after I passed him I saw Kishane out there I was like just do what I do, hit my top-end speed, let it work. ‘To be honest, I didn’t know if I had it.
I leaned but I didn’t know I had it. ‘Me and Kishane were at the end waiting for our names to come up and I came back and I said, ‘I’ll be honest, man, I think you got that one’. ‘But my name came up and I was like, ‘oh my gosh, I’m amazing’.
‘I’ve waited a long time, I’ve seen Jamaican’s dominate the.