In the blue-ribbon event on the first weekend of athletics, American Noah Lyles won the Olympic men's 100m title by five-thousandths of a second from Jamaica's Kishane Thompson in a dramatic photo finish at Paris 2024, whilst in tennis, Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz in thrilling fashion to secure a long-awaited Olympic title and complete the career 'Golden Slam'.

Rhys McClenaghan won Olympic pommel horse gold for Ireland as Team GB's Max Whitlock finished out of the medals in his final competition before retirement.

One of the international legacies that highlights the ethos of the Olympics Games came after Carlos Edriel Yulo became the first Filipino man ever to win a gold medal, the first (Filipino) to win any medal in gymnastics and the second to ever to finish on the top podium.

Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred ran away from American sensation, Sha’Carri Richardson, as she streaked across the finish line with relative ease in a blazing 10.72 seconds to claim first place and win her Caribbean nation’s first ever Olympic medal.

Simone Biles' appetite to collect gold medals showed no sign of waning as she soared above her rivals in the vault final on Saturday to scoop a third top prize at the Paris Olympics. 

As the track and field events was set to take centre stage in Paris, it was France's swimming sensation, Leon Marchand, who would command centre stage, winning a sensational fourth Olympic gold in the pool.