NBC broadcaster Leigh Diffey said his eyes deceived him when he announced the wrong winner of the men’s 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles secured gold with a time of 9.784 seconds — and beat Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson (9.789 seconds) by just five thousandths of a second.
“The men’s 100 was epic & closest of all time! My eyes & instinct told me Kishane Thompson won,” Diffey wrote Monday on social media. “Obviously, that wasn’t the case.
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