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Texas-Born Italian Becomes World’s Fastest Man at 2021 Olympics

Marcell Lamont Jacobs wins gold. 

Photographer: Michael Kappeler/dpa/Getty Images

Tokyo (AP) -- The 100 meters at the Olympics is the event that turns sprinters into kings: Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt.

On one of the most unusual nights the sport has ever seen, fans, experts, and even the racers themselves needed a lineup card.