Athletics took center stage during the second week of the Paris Summer Olympics, and with so many events and a six-hour time difference, we at BET.com have some of the week’s best highlights for you.

Noah Lyles talks a lot of nonsense, but he can also prove it. Lyles won the gold medal in a photo finish, beating Jamaica’s Kishane Thompsonand is now considered the “fastest man in the world”. After the race it was announced that Lyles tested positive for COVID.

But his dream, the first person since Carl Lewis Winning the 100m and winning the 200m in 1984 was not possible. He took the bronze medal behind

“It definitely affected my performance,” Lyles notedand said he was “more proud of myself than anything for coming out and getting a bronze medal despite COVID.”

Sha’ Carri Richardson’s performance was one of the most highly anticipated of any American athlete. After being denied the opportunity to compete in Tokyo in 2021, Richardson won the silver medal in the women’s 100-meter dash. Julien-Alfred from St. Lucia won gold and Melissa Jefferson bronze. Richardson is hoping to win her first gold medal as the anchor runner for Team USA in the 4×100 meter relay.

If there are any questions about whether Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone is one of the greatest track and field athletes of all time, she answered them all with a convincing victory in the 400 meter hurdles. Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone set another world record and won two gold medals in a row, writing her name in the history books. Her teammate Anna Cockrell won silver and her rival Femke Bol from the Netherlands took bronze.

Gabby Thomas delivered the best performance of her life, winning the gold medal in the 200-meter dash. As she rounded the corner, there was no doubt that the Harvard graduate would be victorious.

“I’ve imagined this race in my head so many times and over and over again, like I do every race,” Thomas said after the race. “That’s how I win races. But I didn’t expect to feel like that when I crossed that finish line. You prepare for this moment and train so hard for it, but when it comes, it’s indescribable.”

“I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would win an Olympic gold medal and now I am. I’m still trying to comprehend it,” she continued.

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Julien-Alfred from St. Lucia won the silver medal and her teammate Brittany Brown won bronze.

Omari Jones wins bronze medal in boxing

In boxing Omari Jones became the only American to win a medal with bronze. The 21-year-old welterweight defeated Taiwan’s Kan Chia Wei on his debut before defeating dominant Rami Mofid Kiwan from Bulgaria in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Jones faced two-time national champion Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev from Uzbekistan and won with a 3-2 point decision.

During an interview with TODAYJones hinted that he could return to the 2028 Olympics in LA, where he hopes to become the first boxer to win a gold medal since Andre Ward in 2004.

No woman had ever won a medal in the hammer throw until Annette Nneka Echikunwoke made history with the silver medal. Echikunwoke is from Ohio and was supposed to compete in the Tokyo Games as a representative of Nigeria, the country of birth of her parents. However, she was not allowed to take part because Nigeria was classified as a “high-risk country” by the anti-doping authorities in the run-up to the Olympic Games.

“I think (this medal) could have happened three years ago, but I’m glad it’s happening now,” Echikunwoke said. “I feel like everything happens for a reason, even if it’s bad or good or ugly or whatever the case may be. That’s beautiful.”

If boss Stephen Curry cooks, king LeBron James ruled, and Easy Money Sniper Kevin Durant is sniping, Team USA came together like the basketball Avengers to defeat Serbia in a 95-91 thriller. Curry chose the perfect time to have one of the best basketball games in FIBA ​​history with 36 points, one point less than Carmelo Anthony’s for the most points ever scored by a USAB player in the tournament, while Team USA trailed by as many as 17 points. James scored a triple-double with 16 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists and Durant scored several baskets in the decisive phase. Joel Embiid contributed 19 points and four rebounds and played an excellent defensive performance against Nikola Jokic.

The USA team will face France in the gold medal game on Saturday (August 10).

Tara Davis Woodhall brought a lot of momentum to the long jump to win her first gold medal. With a leap of 7.10 meters, Davis-Woodhall beat the competition that included Malaika Mihambo of Germany, the defending champion, who took silver. Her teammate Jasmine Moore took bronze after winning the triple jump. After finishing sixth in Tokyo and battling a bruised heel, Davis-Wooodhall took full advantage of her golden opportunity.

“I’m still dealing with it” Davis-Woodhall said“But we live and we learn, and we’re just going to go out here and do what we can do.”

In a burning 12.99 seconds Grant Holloway won his first Olympic gold medal with a victory in the men’s 110-meter hurdles at the Olympic Games in Paris. His teammate Daniel Roberts took silver in 13.09 seconds, displacing the bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica in a photo finish. After Holloway won silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this moment had been a long time coming.

“It means the world to me to have it official,” said Holloway after the race. “I’m just beside myself, so happy about everything that’s happening. I knew I was in shape, I knew I

able to accomplish this feat and I have officially done it.”

At 16, Quincy Wilson will make history Friday as the youngest male U.S. Olympian to compete on the U.S. national 4×400-meter team. When he runs at the Stade de France on Friday (Aug. 9), he will break the record set by Jim Ryun, a middle-distance runner who competed in the 1964 Olympics at age 17. His future is so bright, he should run with sunglasses.