By Matt Hardy American Noah Lyles beat Kishane Thompson to the Paris 2024 100m gold medal by just 0.005 seconds to win the most iconic race at the Olympic Games. Lyles crossed the line first in a final that saw the eight men covered by just 0.12 seconds – the times clocked for fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth were world records for those positions at a major championship final. Fred Kerley, 29, who was second in Tokyo, took the bronze medal at the Stade de France in front of 70,000 fans. Lyles, 27, has been seen as the big new personality of men’s sprint racing in recent years, with th…