Noah Lyles wins Olympic 100m gold in closest finish in modern history

World champion Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79sec to claim gold in a dramatic men’s Olympic 100m final in Paris on Sunday. Lyles won in the closest Olympic 100m finish in modern history as just five-thousandths of a second separated him from Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson. Both were given the rounded-up time of 9.79sec but