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NBC Sports will attempt to fix Leigh Diffey's botched call of Noah Lyles 100m dash win, per report

Chandler Vesselsby: Chandler Vessels08/05/24ChandlerVessels
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NBC plans re-air the 100-meter dash gold medal win for Noah Lyles with edits made to clear up the call from announcer Leigh Diffey. Lyles edged out Kishane Thompson of Jamaica by a mere 0.005 seconds on Sunday to claim the USA’s first gold in the event since 2004.

With the race being so close, not even Lyles or Thompson knew who had won between them before the official confirmation came. Diffey incorrectly declared Thompson the winner on the live broadcast.

Now according to Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports, NBC plans to replay the full race at 10 p.m. ET Sunday with added context. It will also include a post-race interview with Lyles.

You can view the original call from Diffey below.

The changes to the original call will also take place on NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock. The finish to the race was the closest in the 100-meter event since at least 1980, and possibly ever, according to ESPN.

Given all those facts, one can hardly blame Leigh Diffey for the mistake on the NBC call. Lyles himself even admitted after the race that he initially thought he had lost.

“We were waiting for the names to pop up, and I’m going to be honest, I came over [to Thompson] and I was like: ‘I think you got that one, big dawg!'” Lyles said in his postrace news conference. “Something said I need to lean, and I was like, ‘I’m going to lean,’ because it’s that type of race.”

Lyles appeared to be trailing Thompson for much of the contest before he leaped ahead in the final 10 meters. It is the sprinter’s second overall Olympic medal after he won bronze in the 200-meter dash at the Tokyo Olympics, and his first gold.

He will also have an opportunity to take home another gold medal in the 200-meter race on Wednesday night.

Noah Lyles continues trash talk to Kenny Bednarek, Olympic 200m field: ‘When I come off the turn, they will be depressed’

Noah Lyles claimed the title of world’s fastest man on Sunday with his gold medal in the 100m final in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Even so, he’s already calling his shot for the 200m final later this week from France.

Lyles didn’t hold back when discussing the 200m event. While on the same team, he said Kenny Bednarek, who finished in seventh in the 100, along with the rest of the field would be as disappointed as they were today when he goes for it in that race too.

“(Kerley) is definitely not going to take how he did here in the 100m lying down…(But) that man ain’t winning,” said Lyles. “None of them is winning. When I come off the turn, they will be depressed.”

Lyles certainly has a case as a favorite, especially after the events earlier today inside the Stade de France.