#kishane thompson

[deadthehype]

100m Finals Paris Olympics 2024

[the-football-chick]

It was an exciting mens 100m final with Noah Lyles of Team USA claiming gold and the title "Fastest Man."

Kishane Thompson (Jamaica) won silver and Fred Kerley (USA) took bronze.

IG: citiusmag (8/4/24)

[illuzion-z]

Olympics 2024 Bombshells:

Kenny Bednarek 🇺🇸

Lamont Marcell Jacobs 🇮🇹

Emmanuel Matadi 🇱🇷

Leo Neugebauer 🇩🇪

Aden Owens-Delerme 🇵🇷

Kishane Thompson 🇯🇲

[homoerotisch]

need him so bad fr

[ledeckys]

waiting for the photo finish to be called 💯

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Please watch Noah Lyles literally photo finish win the 100m.

Holy shit.

Something else I find amazing is that Kishane Thompson had the ability to know how close it was and clearly wasn't sure he'd actually won. I can't imagine having that sort of awareness in a situation.

[maximura]

Congrats to Noah Lyles or whatever. But everyone thought Kishane won that. Also the fucking bravado after it was hilarious. Dude they needed VAR to decide, that wasn’t domination. There’s only one Fast Running Man and that’s Usain Bolt. But anyways, great running good athlete etc etc.

[dweemeister]

"America! I told you! I got this!"

Noah Lyles wins the 100m men's gold medal in Paris 2024

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[kaiasky]

everyone (not just here but also like. in the news) is like noah lyles won gold and did the kamehameha! and for some reason very few people are discussing that kishane Thompson went supersayaian on his walkout

like. the guy's posted dbz on his Instagram within the past week. he knows what hes doing. it's not "weeb vs jocks"; The two fastest sprinters in the world are both dbz fans. which is infinitely better

[jodielandons]

The moment NOAH LYLES found out he beat Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by .005 seconds to win the gold medal in the 2024 Olympics men's 100m race

[dweemeister]

A note to all: in athletics/track and field, your finish is calculated from the moment your torso touches the finish line. Not your head. Not your arms. Not your feet. Your torso.

Nothing better than a photo finish 100M race.

Editing to add this photo too… crazy!

[trackandfieldimage]

100 meters men’s final Paris Olympics 2024. 🇺🇸Noah Lyles takes gold, 9.79. 🇯🇲Kishane Thompson 9.79, 🇺🇸Fred Kerley 9.81. . . . #noahlyles #100m #Paris2024 #jeffcohenphoto #trackandfield #athletics #fredkerley #kishanethompson @nojo18

[cosmicanger]

Kishane Thompson 🇯🇲

[tredawakandan]

Probably Gonna be My Last Post on this Thread. Thanks to Any for Reading 😁

Firstly I wanna say My predictions from a YR ago had some correct & Some not💯. Sydney, Noah & Sha'carri all medaled 😤😁. Kudos to Noah for Winning That 100m Gold. Unfortunately he didn't get gold for the 200m but still placed on the Podium 💪🏿. Now during the Semi's I noticed him wearing a mask and didn't wanna jinx it by thinking he was sick or anything. But unfortunately he had caught Covid after his 100m race. I wouldn't wish that on anybody especially during the Olympics 😔. But going back to the previous/above blog the Hate For Noah continues. As mentioned with Sha'carri losing in the 100m I will always feel it's a reason she lost but ultimately I'm not gonna stress over it. A race is always about who is better in that moment or on that day. And Tebogo was successful on this day. The only thing I hate is that folks act like Covid didn't affect Noah😅. You're telling me the Guy who hadn't lost a 200m race for 3yrs , Broke his 100m Personal Best twice and is the 3rd fastest of all time (who is still in his prime) just decided to not look like himself. Then folks will lie and say he was gassed. So my question would be then what didn't that happen last year 🧐. Overall I gotta say shout-out to him for still getting a medal and also once again Kudos to Tebogo on the win . The future races between them will definitely be more intense 😅💯

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is F**king Amazing 🤩.

The girl just can't stop being great. She literally just broke a WR and Now Broke it again for the 6th time😭. Like others i never thought it was a chance anyone could beat her. But more interesting news is that Michael Johnson seemed confident she would be running the 400m flat for the future. What makes that important is that she was the first Person he Signed to his New Track League. I definitely think she can break that 400m WR eventually

Sha'carri brought me back into watching Track again and I told y'all in 2020/2021 that I would never give up on her👌🏿. Yea I disliked her performance in the 100m but ultimately it's a learning experience. She also still walked away with an Olympic medal💪🏿.. TT Terry did the Damn thing in this Race 😤. This Gold Medal from this race definitely was a good win for the team. Also nice to see Sha'carri and her running teammates all win gold

Aye we Calling her🥇 Gold Medal Gabby 😅. She ran into another headwind. That girl got a strong drive to win in the 200m. This being my last post I'm definitely gonna predict she may break her PB next yr.

I also wanna congratulate McKenzie Long for making it to the Finals. I didn't realize she ran 37 races this yr in college 😮. I definitely am gonna be interested in her pro career

Edit: The women also placed Gold in the 4x400m 😤

So to Recap:

Sha'carri 🥈🥇

Noah Lyles🥇🥉

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 🥇 🥇+ World Record

Gabby Thomas 🥇🥇🥇

Hopefully we will see these three get medals in the Olympics in 2024🥇😤

Sydney - 400m, 400m Hurdles, and the 4x400

Noah Lyles- 4x1, 200m, and 100m

Sha'carri - 100m, 4x100,200m

Will Update this next year😉

Here's also to hoping they all break the Olympic records 👌🏿. What's crazy is that Sha'carri could potentially do it for two events as seen above. Also to note Lyles broke the WC record held by Michael Johnson by 0.01 seconds. It would be crazy if he did the same with Bolts Olympic record 💯