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    What a photo finish 😱📸🥇

    By Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY,

    11 hours ago

    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.

    https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0hJIPu_0unmED6J00
    😱 James Lang, James Lang-USA TODAY Sports

    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.

    The USA TODAY app brings you every Team USA medal — right when it happens. Download for full Olympics coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and much more .

    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 .

    This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What a photo finish 😱📸🥇

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