Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Bobby Finke won big, while Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic left Tokyo early. These are the best underdog stories from the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The competition has produced inspiring moments that have gotten the world’s attention and embodied the Olympic spirit.

The first hints that this was Italy’s year came when Italian band Maneskin won the popular Eurovision Song Contest in May.

Marcell Jacobs, in one of the great from-out-of-nowhere stories in Olympic history, ran 9.8 seconds Sunday to win the men’s 100-meter final.

The Texas-born sprinter becomes the first Olympic men's 100m gold medalist not representing the United States or Jamaica since Canada's Donovan Bailey in 1996.