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What a photo finish 😱📸🥇

Rachel G Bowers   Paste BN

Your Olympics essentials.

  • What happened yesterday: Noah Lyles won in the 100-meter dash, in a literal photo finish! Swimmer Bobby Finke won gold in the 1,500m, setting a world record while he was at it! Golfer Scottie Scheffler won gold! Kristen Faulkner won gold to become the first American woman to medal in a cycling race in 40 years! The U.S. women’s 4x100 medley relay team won gold and broke a world record! Suni Lee won bronze on uneven bars! The U.S. women’s hoops team beat Germany in their last group stage game! Check out all the day’s highlights.
  • What’s happening today: Simone Biles competes in the finals for balance beam and floor exercise on the last day of gymnastics in Paris! Noah Lyles runs in the first round of the 200-meter sprint! Gabby Thomas, McKenzie Long and Brittany Brown run in the women’s 200m sprint semifinals! The U.S. men’s volleyball team plays Brazil in the quarterfinals! More track and field finals, including men’s pole vault, women’s discus, women’s 5,000m and women’s 800m! Beach volleyball round of 16 matches! Wrestling starts! Follow all the day’s action.
  • The latest medal count: Entering Monday, the U.S. held the lead in the medal count with 71 (19 golds, 26 silvers, 26 bronze) and is in a tie with China for the gold medal lead.

Holy $*&@!

I’m just gonna get outta the way and you can look at this Noah Lyles photo finish because wowza.

You can check out the official OMEGA finish photo here. Wanna know more about Noah, the showman who is going for the double gold with the 200 meters still left to go? We got you.

  • How Noah Lyles plans to become track's greatest showman at Paris Olympics and beyond.
  • What did Lyles' coach say to him before he ran to Olympic gold? "I said 'Hey, a showman shows up when the show's on.' And that's what he did," Lance Brauman said.
  • Lyles was ready for this moment. "I saw my name and was like, 'I didn't do this against a slow crowd, I did this against the best of the best, on the biggest stage, with the biggest pressure,'" he said after.

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Other highlights from yesterday.

  • Behind the scenes with Snoop Dogg in Paris: "It’s me being me.” Also, please check out his Olympic pins if you haven't already seen them. They're hilarious.
  • Who will the U.S. women's basketball team face in the quarterfinals? Everything to know about their path to gold.
  • Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng have kept their beach volleyball medal hopes alive after a in three-set thriller against Italy.
  • Archery's Brady Ellison won silver, barely missing his first gold on final arrow.
  • The U.S. men’s basketball team learned it will face Brazil in the quarterfinals on Tuesday in Paris.
  • Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, a two-time world champion in the 200m, withdrew from the event.
  • Why Suni Lee’s uneven bars bronze means more this time around.
  • The U.S. women's basketball win against Germany showed how WNBA's prioritization rule hurts the game.
  • Why U.S. hurdler Freddie Crittenden jogged through a preliminary heat.
  • Kristen Faulkner took a big risk to win Olympic gold. It's the first one in 40 years.
  • Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz to earn his first Olympic gold medal. For Djokovic, winning for Serbia supersedes all else.
  • Jimmer Fredette, the 3x3 star, is going to miss six months after an Olympic-ending injury.
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