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00:00Let's come back to Paris for the latest on the Olympic action and on Sunday Noah Lyles became the first
00:05American to win the title in 20 years
00:08He won gold in the Olympic 100 meter final in an extremely close race coming barely ahead of Jamaica's Keshane Thompson
00:16Now others may have had their legs cross the finish first as you can see there, but it is the torso that counts
00:21Here's more from some ecstatic fans
00:23It was so it was so close you couldn't tell who won we're right there on the final on the finish line it was
00:32Absolutely incredible the fans were
00:35phenomenal and
00:36Everybody was great and all the athletes are amazing and they're all to be lauded because they are tremendous
00:43like it was
00:45crazy actually it was a lot of hype and build up and suspense because
00:49Like he had like his whole Netflix show and everything and like me and my friends watched it
00:53So we got like a whole backstory before watching him race
00:56Well, the US now has 71 medals in all and 19 golds tying with China for the most gold medals in the Paris Olympics so far
01:04France is tied with Australia just behind with 12 gold medals each
01:08France has 44 medals in all already surpassing its record previously set in Beijing in
01:142008 the current host country picked up 43 medals in all and we're just a little over halfway through at this point
01:20That also means France is currently in line with its objective of finishing in the top five at the end of the second week