The final of the men's 100m at the 2024 Paris Olympics featured a photo finish for the ages. American sprinter Noah Lyles, who had already created one memorable photograph with his stare down of Jamaica's Oblique Seville in the semifinal at the Stade de France earlier Sunday, was part of another as he narrowly defeated Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second to win gold.
So close was the finish that neither Lyles nor Thompson was immediately sure of the result. As photos of the finish surfaced on social media, Olympics fans could not believe just how close the race was.
