.Coley Harvey, ESPN Team WriterAug 5, 2024, 05:33 PM ETClosePreviously covered Florida Condition for Orlando Sentinel as well as Georgia Technology for Macon Telegraph.Northwestern College graduateNoah Lyles won gold in the guys's 100m last on Sunday in a traditionally near race.He beat Jamaica's Kishane Thompson through 0.005 few seconds, marking the closest men's 100m competition at the Olympics considering that 1980, depending on to ESPN Statistics & Information.Editor's Picks1 RelatedThe news of his gold award triumph took approximately half a min to affirm as the race finished. Once it was formal, Lyles responded by uplifting his bib and also screaming: "The United States. I told you, I got this." Lyles, mentioned there were few occasions during his gold-medal evening. He invested it speaking with media, fulfilling a compulsory post-race medicine examination, as well as slipping into partner mode.Monday notes the two-year wedding anniversary for Lyles and his partner, Jamaican 400-meter distance runner Junelle Bromfield, Lyles mentioned. While he confesses owing her an actual vacation after the Olympics, he administered an essential action of chivalry in the wee hrs Monday morning.Around 2 a.m. Paris time, Lyles said Bromfield let him understand she had inadvertently left her running spikes at their massage therapist's Airbnb near the Olympic Village. Due to the fact that she was running her first competitions of the Olympics eventually Monday early morning, it was essential she obtain those spikes." Thus listed below I am at 2 a.m., swaying with a spike bag, my bag and some toiletries, and I resemble, '. Listed here I am actually, Olympics champion, one hundred meters, swaying to my sweetheart's space along with all this stuff,'" Lyles claimed, laughing." I am actually a great guy." Bromfield completed third in her heat, getting approved for the girls's 400m semifinals on Wednesday. Lyles themself won his heat energy in the preliminary of the males's 200m, additionally obtaining the semifinals.