TORCH TALK DAY 3: NOAH LYLES WINS GOLD! KISHANE THOMPSON SILVER 100 METER FINAL RECAP SHOW + JOSH KERR VS. JAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN SET FOR 1500M FINAL CLASH | LIVE FROM PARIS
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🗓️ 4 August 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Today’s excitement was off the charts! Day three’s events were a rollercoaster of thrills, but stealing the spotlight was the men’s 100m final – a race that had fans across the world on the edge of their seats from start to finish. In today’s edition of Torch Talk, we recap…
– Noah Lyles wins the first Olympic gold of his career by taking the 100m crown over Jamaica's Kishane Thompson. Both men ran 9.79 and the gold was decided by thousandths-of-a-second. American Fred Kerley came through for bronze in 9.81.
– World record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh won her first Olympic high jump title with a mark of 2.00m. Australia's Nicola Olyslagers won her second straight Olympic silver, while Iryna Gershchenko and Eleanor Patterson tied on countback for the bronze medal.
– Ethan Katzberg won the Olympic gold in the men's hammer with a mark of 84.12m, the second-best mark in Olympic history. It was the largest margin of victory since 1920. Hungary's Bence Halasz took silver and Ukraine's Mykhaylo Kokhan took bronze.
– Grant Holloway posted the fastest time of the Olympic 110m hurdles qualifying by a HUGE margin, clocking a 13.01 to win his heat by 0.41 seconds.
– The women’s 800m finalists were determined: Keely Hodgkinson, Tsige Duguma, Prudence Sekgodiso, Shafiqua Maloney, Juliette Whittaker, Rénelle Lamote, Mary Moraa, and Worknesh Mesele.
– The men’s 1500m finalists were determined: Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Josh Kerr, Cole Hocker, Brian Komen, Stefan Nillessen, Pietro Arese, Yared Nuguse, Hobbs Kessler, Neil Gourley, Niels Laros, Timothy Cheruiyot, and Narve Gilje Nordås.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up YouTube? |
| 0:03.0 | What's up YouTube? Citius Mag, live from Paris as we kick off this post-race show, |
| 0:10.0 | Torch Talk presented by A6, an epic night of track and field here in Paris. |
| 0:18.0 | Still got the credential on because I just walked through the door and was like, |
| 0:22.0 | I need to get on the mics and jump on it because it's a little |
| 0:25.6 | harder than Budapest last year where we just ran out of the stadium, got on scooters and we're |
| 0:29.7 | home within 15 minutes. |
| 0:30.9 | This is a little bit tougher, but I'm still riding the high of the fact |
| 0:34.7 | that Noah Liles is your Olympic 100 meter champion winning by 5, 1000ths of a second over Cushene Thompson of Jamaica, a photo finish. |
| 0:47.9 | This was the deepest and hardest 100 meter final to make and it delivered in all of the dramatics Fred Curley with an Olympic bronze medal |
| 0:58.4 | Unbelievable race |
| 1:00.3 | Caitlin you were in the stadium for this one your first time ever experiencing a |
| 1:04.4 | hundred meter final at an Olympics there's nothing like it you know what I'm |
| 1:09.8 | I'm let me let me break it to you down this way right so we're all |
| 1:14.1 | watching the racist right you know city is mad crew is just having a blast |
| 1:17.6 | boom we're walking into the stadium they're like here's this like thing and we're like I don't know what this is but they're like just put it on your rest as a light show and I'm like what light show are you talking about? |
| 1:28.0 | Because they didn't do this for the women's hundred final yesterday. |
| 1:30.0 | I was so confused. |
| 1:31.0 | They should have. |
| 1:32.0 | So I you know went in there I put it on my wrist was like waiting for it to happen because I'm like what is going on like there's all these |
| 1:38.2 | events going on why is this thingy not lighting up like does it not work like I don't |
| 1:41.9 | know what's going on then the anticipation starts building |
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