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| mens 100m race at the olympcs |
The men’s 100m is one of the most-anticipated track events at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The USA and Jamaica will renew their rivalry, but Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, and Italy will have a say in the event. Three-time 100m Olympic champion, Usain Bolt, has picked Oblique Seville as a potential gold medalist. Oblique Seville is seeking to emulate Usain Bolt at the 2024 Paris Olympics. World champion, Noah Lyles is seeking his first gold medal at the Olympics after a frustrating campaign at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, where he settled for Bronze in the 200m. He won the 100m title in a field with Olympic champion, Marcel Jacobs and former world champions Christian Coleman and Fred Kerley. This time around, the field is stacked. Seville, Ferdinand Omanyala, Kishane Thompson, and Letsile are serious contenders for the gold medal. Ahead of the showdown, Thompson is the world leader with 9.77 seconds, the fastest time since 2022, per World Athletics. The USA won gold in 2000 and 2004, while Bolt won three straight gold medals in 2008, 2012, and 2016. No other Jamaican has won a gold medal in the men’s 100m. Who will win 100m gold at Olympics? Lyles is the front-runner for the gold medal, but it will be a battle. Bolt is confident about Seville’s chances. “If he can stay healthy, he’s gonna cause a lot of problems. He’s been just out of the medals every year in fourth place. He looks excellent, and I know my coach if he’s preparing him and he’s fit, he’s gonna win for sure,” he told Olympics. The 23-year-old recently defeated Lyles at the Racers Grand Prix in Jamaica and set a world lead of 9.82 seconds before Thompson eclipsed it. Seville finished fourth at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a time of 9.88 seconds.
by Edwin Kiplagat