Sports Report Olympics Edition: Noah Lyles is the fastest man in the world

Welcome to our daily Olympic newsletter. I’m your guide John Cherwa and it’s great to have the fastest man in the world from America.

It doesn’t matter how much – in this case 0.005 seconds – Noah Lyles of the US is the fastest man in the world.

He won the 100 meters on Sunday in a photo shoot ahead of Kishane Thompson of Jamaica. Fred Kerley of the US was third. The winning time was 9.784 seconds. It was the first time the US won this event since Justin Gatlin in 2004.

In a big gaffe with NBC and the Olympic Broadcasting Services, which feeds NBC, the commentary and the camera stayed with Thompson after the race for a while before realizing that Lyles might win. And then they changed.

Lyles will be in the 200, his best event, later in the week.

Our own David Wharton has more to tell you about this historic win, right here.

There were many other interesting ones.

-Big night for the US on the last night of swimming. Bobby Finke set a world record in the 1,500 meter freestyle and the women’s 400 medley also set a world record in their victory. It gave the US eight medals for the tournament, one more than Australia. But it was also the lowest gold medal total for the US since 1988 in Seoul. It had two less medals (28) than it had in Tokyo three years ago.

In a big upset, the US lost the men’s 400 medley to China. It is the first time the US has not won a race since 1960 in Rome, except for the controversial 1980 Games in Moscow.

-Suni Lee of the United States won her third medal of the games when she finished third on the uneven bars. Our Thuc Nhi Nguyen tells you about it here.

– Kristen Faulkner of the US won the women’s cycling race to become the first American cyclist to win the race in 40 years.

—Scott Scheffler of the US shot a record 62 to win the men’s golf championship. Our own Kevin Baxter has the comeback story right here.

-Novak Djokovic, 37, of Serbia beat Carlos Alcaraz, 21, of Spain in two sets of tiebreakers to win Olympic tennis gold, his first.

Looking at team competition

Let’s take a look at all the team players. Most are going into knock-out rounds, where anything can happen.

3 X 3 basketball: (Men, because it’s alphabetized, which ends up being a tiebreaker) The US won two of the seven pool games and lost the playoffs and was eliminated. Latvia will play France and the Netherlands meet Lithuania in the semis.

(Women) US won four of its seven pool games and beat China in the playoffs. Plays Spain in the semi today and Germany-Canada in the other semi. All prize games are today.

Basketball: (Men) The United States, along with Germany and Canada, finished group play 3-0. The US plays Brazil on Tuesday in the quarterfinals. Other matches are Germany vs. Greece, France vs. Canada and Serbia vs. Australia.

(Women) US was undefeated, as usual, and plays Nigeria on Wednesday. In other quarter finals it is Serbia vs. Australia, Spain vs. Belgium and Germany vs. France.

Beach volleyball: (Men) The US team of Andy Benesh and Miles Partin will play in the round of 16 today against the Italian team while the other United States team of Chase Budinger and Miles Evans will play a tough Norwegian team in the same match. Losers go home.

(Women) Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes defeated Italy on Sunday in the round of 16. Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss will play the second team from Canada today in the round of 16.

Field Hockey: (Women) Team US was 1-3-1 in pool play and did not make the knockout rounds. The quarters start today with Australia vs. China, Argentina vs. Germany, Netherlands vs. Britain and Belgium vs. Spain. The US men did not qualify for the competition. The men’s semi is Germany vs. India and the Netherlands vs. Spain.

Football: (Men) The US was swept by Morocco, 4-0, in the quarterfinals. Semi today is Morocco vs. Spain and France vs. Egypt. (Women) The US beat Japan, 1-0, in overtime and play Germany on Tuesday. Brazil plays Spain in the other round.

Handball Team: (Men’s and women’s) The US only plays this game as the host nation, which gets a chance to enter the tournament.

Volleyball: (Men) The US, Italy and Slovenia are all unbeaten in three games. The quarterfinals begin today with the US playing Brazil, Italy vs. Japan, France vs. Germany and Slovenia vs. Poland.

(Women) Poland will host the USA on Tuesday when the quarterfinals begin. Other matches are Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, China vs. Turkey and Italy vs. Serbia.

Water polo: (Men) The men finish pool play on Monday and the bracket will be determined.

(Women) The US finished 3-1 in pool play and will play Hungary on Tuesday. Other quarter-final matches are Australia vs. Greece, Netherlands vs. Italy and Canada vs. Spain.

Your favorite Olympic sport

We asked you what your favorite Summer Olympics are, and you told us. There were approximately 1,400 responses and the margin of error in this unscientific survey is approximately plus/minus 99%. Here are the results.

Track and Field, 39.7%

Physical activity, 22.2%

Furthermore, 15.8%

Swimming, 9.3%

Beach volleyball, 6.6%

Basketball, 3.3%

Football, 2.4%

Skateboarding, 0.4%

Boxing, 0.3%

Climbing sports received one vote.

We are trying to make another selection tomorrow.

What to watch today

-Simone Biles wraps up her Paris Olympics experience by competing in the balance beam and floor exercise. It’s hard to see him not winning on the ground, but the balance field is always full of danger. If you didn’t know about it beforehand you will miss it live. The field is at 3:38 am PDT and the ground is at 5:23 am PDT.

—There are four track and field finals: men’s soccer, women’s discus, women’s 5,000 meters and women’s 800 meters. The first finals are at 10 am

–The US women’s 3 X 3 basketball team, after losing its first three games, is in the semi-finals against Spain. You can check things out at 8:30 am PDT.

Links you should read

Let’s take a look at some stories you may have missed but shouldn’t:

Your TV guide

How can you watch the Games today? Check out Monday’s Olympics TV lineup.