Botswana's Letsile Tebogo snatched a stunning Olympic gold in the men's 200m Thursday to deny Covid-hit Noah Lyles the sprint double as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone smashed the world record to win the 400m hurdles.

On a star-studded night of Olympic action, NBA legend LeBron James led out the US basketball dream team in a crunch semi-final against Serbia.

Fresh from winning the closest 100m final in modern Olympic history, the brash Lyles was keen to showcase his speed and endurance in his preferred 200m.

But Tebogo stunned the fancied Americans with a storming run down the straight, relegating Lyles to bronze and his US teammate Kenneth Bednarek to silver.

The first African to win 200m gold, Tebogo clocked a continent-wide record time of 19.46sec, leaving a distraught Lyles prone on the track before being taken away in a wheelchair.

"It was really a beautiful race for me," Tebogo said.

"When we made it to the final, my coach just told me, 'Now my job is done, it's up to you to see what you can do',"........

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