{"id":23084,"date":"2024-12-24T02:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=23084"},"modified":"2024-12-24T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T02:54:15","slug":"noah-edges-out-jamaicas-kishane-in-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=23084","title":{"rendered":"Noah edges out Jamaica&#8217;s Kishane in Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/49c1aacccd16d0cae01f567402340e13c11cd396-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paris \u2013 The biggest sporting event of 2024 was without doubt the Parisian high-wire double-act of the Olympic Games followed by the Paralympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a colourful, sometimes controversial and sodden opening ceremony to boxers caught up in a gender row to refugees on the podium, they served up many memorable moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisers promised a spectacular opening ceremony and the rain-soaked boat parade on the River Seine ended up making global headlines but not for the expected reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noah Lyles (lane 7) edges out Jamaica&#8217;s Kishane Thompson (4) and third-placed Fred Kerley (3) in the 100m final<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World champion Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79sec to claim gold in a dramatic men&#8217;s Olympic 100m final in the closest finish in modern history &#8212; just five thousandths of a second separated him from Jamaica&#8217;s Kishane Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m the man amongst all of them. I&#8217;m the wolf amongst wolves,&#8221; said Lyles whose victory was only confirmed after a photo-finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris \u2013 The biggest sporting event of 2024 was without doubt the Parisian high-wire double-act of the Olympic Games followed by the Paralympics. From a colourful, sometimes controversial and sodden&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1384,2199],"class_list":["post-23084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-paris-olympics-2024","tag-world-best-runners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23086,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084\/revisions\/23086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}