2024-08-08 14:30:03
Three days after Noah Lyles became the first American in 20 years to win Olympic gold in the men’s 100-meter final — and winning the race by just five thousandths of a second — Team USA also claimed the top spot in the 400-meter final.
It happened in equally dramatic fashion, too.
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Quincy Hall, a Kansas City, Missouri native and former University of South Carolina All-American, finished first in a thrilling 400 final Wednesday at the 2024 Paris Olympics, staging a thrilling comeback to move from fourth place to first in the final portion of the race to edge out Great Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith by four hundredths of a second.
To get an idea of Hall’s spectacular feat, here’s a look at how the mad dash to the finish line went:
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