Was this the best race in historical past?
A spectacular pre-race lightshow and dramatic music throughout a prolonged await the beginning pistol at an expectant Stade de France heightened the senses.
However even these dazzling theatrics couldn’t fairly do justice to the occasions which unfolded within the 10 seconds that adopted.
As Noah Lyles celebrated wildly, his first Olympic triumph confirmed, others have been left shocked after witnessing one of the vital exceptional 100m showdowns of all time.
American Lyles had taken victory by five-thousandths of a second from Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson in a dramatic picture end, profitable in 9.79 seconds.
All eight males completed inside 0.12secs of the gold medal, with last-placed Jamaican Indirect Seville crossing the road in 9.91 – a time adequate for fourth on the Tokyo Video games.
And it meant, for the primary time, that eight males had run underneath 10 seconds in a wind-legal race – making it the quickest race in historical past.
4-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson mentioned it was “completely” the very best 100m ultimate he has ever seen “bar none”.
“The ultimate lived as much as the hype. Going by the rounds it appeared like a foregone conclusion that Kishane Thompson would win as he was the one who got here in because the quickest man on the earth,” Johnson mentioned on BBC TV.
“We had this superb race the place you may throw a blanket over the ending line.
“We did not even know who gained for a couple of minutes.”
