Kishane Thompson was robbed by the photo finish

Cope

In none of those 10 times you watched race was the camera perfectly lined with the finish line.

There is an official finish camera for recording their times and places, and that’s not what you were looking watching.

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2024 Paris Olympics: USA's Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold in thrilling photo finish

@JeffEisenberg

Lyles secured the U.S.’s first gold medal in the men’s 100 in 20 years, streaking across the finish line in a personal-best 9.79 seconds.

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This overhead view is better, but still not official.

VisionWorks

That image is not conclusive. It's half of a meter before the line. And Kishane leaned after that.

So the winner wasn't the winner? Sounds like salty Trumpers

The actual slit photo they used is pretty conclusive.

Which race? The one I watched had Lyles slightly ahead if you pause or slow it down.

Noah leaned too and was clearly moving faster than anyone else in the field the final 10m anyway so Kishane was not closing ground there

Cry more, loser!

Look at the difference of form on the lean:

-Thompson: back hunched, chest not out

-Lyles: perfectly straight back, chest out

there is your 0.005 right there. master class by Lyles

Lyles won that race fair and square.

I think we have to give Kishane a big pat on the back. He's still a rookie and almost won Olympic gold in his first full season running.

Remember, Lyles had Tokyo and Bolt had Athens before greatness came their way.

Pachip -

Your post makes little sense. Given the stakes, if your view had even a remote chance of being accurate, the Jamaican team would be lodging a protest. They can’t because although incredibly close Lyles is the winner. And your reference to VAR in soccer is inapposite. The photo finish system is far more susceptible to determining an objective verifiable result.

I thought the story here is twofold: 1) Lyles come through when it matters, and 2) Diffey declaring Thompson the winner - the best announcing would have merely captured how incredibly close the race was. Diffey lacks a feel for the sport. He seems decent at Formula One - and event with more air time not requiring instinctual feel for the race

Every photo finish timer I know has seen MUCH closer finishes than that, even at the high school level.

The photo finish picture posted is textbook for what you'd expect too see at any given championship style race.

Had that photo finish picture popped up on my computer screen as they finished the race, I really would've felt like I had just dodged a bullet bc I really would've expected that race to appear much closer than it did in the final image. We see much closer races all of the time!

A middle school timer could've picked that race easily, so there's no way the OP can say that anyone was robbed lol

How old are you?

*Hillary

Your funny. Well, you can see what you want to see all you want but it doesn't change the reality that Lyles won.

why does everything have to devolve into politics for you weirdos?