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Lawrence Ostlere

Noah Lyles didn’t cross the line first but still won Olympic gold – anatomy of the greatest 100m final

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By the time Noah Lyles started the Olympic 100m final, he was already last. Lyles took 0.178 sec to react to the gun. That might sound quick but in a sport measured in thousandths of a second, he had just given up 0.07 to one his biggest rivals, fellow American Fred Kerley.

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