At the 2012 Games in London ... When you watch a 100-meter race, you might think that a sprinter pulling away near the end is gaining speed on everyone. That is not the case.

Noah Lyles won the 100-meter final to claim ... of four golds at the 1984 Olympic Games. He’ll be an even bigger favorite to win his next event—the 200 meters. “I’ll be winning,” Lyles ...

Usain Bolt once tightly held on to the mantle of World’s Fastest Man in his lightening quick sprints at multiple Olympic Games ... Jacobs who finished the 100-meter race in 9.8 seconds ...

The graph below shows the progression of gold medalists' times for the 100-meter sprint since 1896. Use the zoom controls at the top right to get a closer look, and hover over the points to learn ...

Noah Lyles had been signaling to the world that he would be the star of the premier event at the Olympic Games, the 100-meter dash in athletics, a race he won by a very narrow margin. (VIDEO ...

Yoshihide Kiryu in 2017 broke that mark and became the first Japanese sprinter to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds ... which took place at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok.