Track and field has taken center stage in the second week of the Paris Summer Olympics. With so many events taking place and a six-hour time difference, BET has some of the best highlights of the week.

Noah Lyles talks a lot of trash, but he sure can back it up. Lyles won the gold medal in a photo finish, edging out Jamaica's Kishane Thompson, and is now regarded as the “World’s Fastest Man.” Following the race, it was revealed that Lyles tested positive for COVID.

But his dream of becoming the first person since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win the 100m and the 200m was not to be. He took the bronze medal behind

"It definitely affected my performance," Lyles noted, saying he's "more proud of myself than anything, coming out and getting a bronze medal with COVID."

Sha’ Carri Richardson’s performance was among the most highly anticipated of all the American athletes. After being denied the opportunity to run in Tokyo in 2021, Richardson won the Women’s 100m silver medal. Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia won the gold, and Melissa Jefferson took the bronze. Richardson is looking to capture her first gold medal as the anchor leg for Team USA in the 4x100m relay.

If there were any questions about whether Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone is one of the greatest track and field athletes of all time, she answered them all with an emphatic victory in the 400m hurdles. Setting another world record, Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone has won back-to-back gold medals, etching her name in history books. Her teammate Anna Cockrell won the silver, and her rival Femke Bol of the Netherlands took the bronze.

Gabby Thomas turned in the performance of a lifetime with a gold-medal-winning victory in the 200m. As she around the turn, there was no doubt that the Harvard University grad was going to be victorious

“I’ve envisioned this race in my head so many times over and over, as I do with every race,” Thomas said after the race. “That’s how I win races. But I did not expect to feel how I felt when I crossed that line. You prepare for this moment and train so hard for it, but when it comes, it’s indescribable. 

“I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would become an Olympic gold medalist and I am one. I’m still wrapping my head around that,” she continued.

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Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia won the silver medal, and her teammate Brittany Brown won the bronze.

Omari Jones Wins the Bronze Medal in Boxing

In boxing, Omari Jones became the only American to win a medal by capturing the bronze. The 21-year-old welterweight defeated Taiwan's Kan Chia Wei in his debut before dominatingly beating Rami Mofid Kiwan of Bulgaria in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Jones faced Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev, a two-time national champion, in a 3-2 split decision.

During an interview on TODAY, Jones hinted at returning to the 2028 Olympics in LA where he hopes to be the first boxer to win a gold medal since Andre Ward in 2004.

No woman had ever medaled in the hammer throw until Annette Nneka Echikunwoke made history with the silver medal. A native of Ohio, Echikunwoke was slated to appear in the Tokyo Games as a representative of Nigeria, her parents' birthplace, but she was not allowed to participate because Nigeria was categorized as “high risk” by anti-doping regulators leading up to the Olympics.

“I think (this medal) could have happened three years ago, but I’m happy it’s happening now,” Echikunwoke said. “I feel like everything happens for a reason, even if it’s bad or good or ugly or whatever the case may be. This is beautiful.”

When Chef Stephen Curry is cooking, King LeBron James is reigning, and Easy Money Sniper Kevin Durant is sniping, Team USA came together like the basketball Avengers to defeat Serbia in a 95-91 thriller. Curry picked the perfect time to have one of the best basketball games in FIBA history with 36 points, one point shy of Carmelo Anthony’s for the most points ever scored by a USAB player in the tournament, as Team USA trailed by as many as 17 points. James had a triple-double with 16 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists and Durant came through in the clutch with several timely baskets. Joel Embiid chipped in with 19 points, four rebounds and played a tremendous defensive game against Nikola Jokic.

Team USA will play France in the gold medal game on Saturday (August 10).

Tara Davis-Woodhall brought all the vibes in the long jump and won her first gold medal. With a jump of 7.10 meters, Davis-Woodhall bested the competition, which included Malaika Mihambo of Germany, the defending gold medalist who took silver. Her teammate Jasmine Moore took bronze after winning the triple jump. After placing six in Tokoyo and dealing with a bone bruise on her heel, Davis-Wooodhall made the most of her golden opportunity.

“I’m still dealing with it,” Davis-Woodhall said. “But we live and we learn, and we’re just gonna go out here and do what we can do.”

In a scorching 12.99 seconds, Grant Holloway won his first Olympic gold medal with a win in the Paris Olympic men’s 110m hurdles final. His teammate Daniel Roberts took silver in 13.09 seconds, edging bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica in a photo finish for second. After getting the  silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this moment was a long time coming for Holloway

“It means the world, to officially have it," Holloway said after the race. "I’m beside myself right now, so happy about everything going on. I knew I was in shape, I knew I was 

capable of completing this feat, and I officially did it.”

At 16 years old, Quincy Wilson will make history as the youngest male U.S. track Olympian in Team USA's Friday's 4x400-meter team. When he runs on Friday (August 9) at Stade de France, he’ll break the record set by Jim Ryun, a middle-distance runner who ran at the 1964 Olympics at 17. His future's so bright that he should run in shades.