Sagen Maddalena from the United States wins the silver while China's Zhang Qiongyue took the bronze.

"Why didn't anyone dare to question Phelps when he won?" Chinese swimmer Yufei responded to questions about Pan during Thursday's press conference.

The victory is Douglass's third Olympic medal following bronze in the 200m medley in Tokyo and silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay in Paris.

Olympic champions will also be crowned in badminton, equestrian, rowing, windsurfing and shooting.

She said she would likely hang up her competitive rash shirt and look to start a family after the Olympics.

Their time at La Defense Arena was second only to their own world best, set at the 2023 world championships.

The 17-year-old hit the wall in an Olympic record 2min 03.03sec ahead of America's Regan Smith (2:03.84) and Chinese defending champion Zhang Yufei (2:05.09

Andy Murray's trophy-filled career came to an end at the Paris Olympics on Thursday as another chapter closed on tennis's golden generation.

Distraught Italian boxer Angela Carini, showing signs of physical pain, shrugged off attempts by Khelif to shake her hand afterwards, collapsing to her knees and sobbing uncontrollably in the middle of the ring.

Already considered the greatest gymnast of all time, the American Biles made another piece of history as the first woman to regain the Olympic all-around title, having won it in 2016.

After winning Commonwealth gold in 2022, Montag said: "Towards the end of the Holocaust (in mid-January 1945) they marched through snow and cold for days on end in little sandals and hardly any clothing.

World number seven Zheng triumphed 6-2, 7-5 and will face either Croatia's Donna Vekic or Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia in the gold medal match.

Pan smashed his own record with a time of 46.40 seconds in the last race of the night at the La Defense Arena on Wednesday. Australian silver medallist Kyle Chalmers was a massive 1.08 seconds behind.

With her victory, Yang added "Olympic champion" to a resume that already included world record-holder and 2017 world champion.

An ambition from Paris Olympics organisers to cut the carbon footprint of catering at this year's eco-friendly Games has run into a problem: the huge appetites of meat-loving athletes.

Ecuador's Brian Pintado won the first athletics Olympic gold medal of the Paris Games on Thursday with victory in the men's 20-kilometre walk.

Defending champions Canada reached the quarterfinals of the women's Olympic football tournament on Wednesday thanks to a 1-0 win over Colombia in Nice hours after they had an appeal against their six-point deduction dismissed.

Rafael Nadal admitted he may have played at Roland Garros for the final time after he and Carlos Alcaraz were dumped out of the Olympics men's doubles on Wednesday.

There will be 18 gold medals up for grabs in France, including four each in rowing and swimming, plus two each in judo, sailing and athletics, while Olympic champions will also be crowned in shooting, artistic gymnastics, and fencing.

Pan powered to the finish in 46.40sec, beating the world record time of 46.80 he had set in February in Doha. It was China's first swimming gold of the Paris Games.