The first African to win 200m gold, Tebogo clocked a continent-wide record time of 19.46sec, leaving a distraught Lyles prone on the track. Lyles later revealed he had tested positive for COVID two days ago.
PARIS - Letsile Tebogo snatched a stunning Olympic gold in the men's 200m Thursday to deny COVID-hit Noah Lyles a sprint double, while LeBron James' USA survived a huge scare from Serbia to reach the men's basketball final.
But Botswana's Tebogo stunned the American with a storming run, relegating Lyles to bronze and his US teammate Kenneth Bednarek to silver. In the end, the race was hardly a contest, McLaughlin-Levrone taking the field apart to register a staggering world record of 50.37sec.Another record fell in the men's javelin, Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem hurling an Olympic record of 92.97 metres with his first effort to win the country's first gold since 1984.
Stung by having to settle for 100m silver, Sha'Carri Richardson ran her anchor leg in an eye-popping 9.99sec to see the women home.At a packed Bercy Arena, the United States had to come back from 17 points down to beat Nikola Jokic's Serbia 95-91 to keep their bid for a fifth straight men's basketball gold medal alive.
"To come back the way we did... I've seen a lot of Team USA basketball, and that was a special one," Curry said. Organisers have been forced to scrap several training sessions and postpone the men's individual triathlon after assessing the water to be too dirty to swim in.
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