“I have achieved more than I ever dreamed of, not only in these Olympic Games but also in sport.”
She is satisfied with herself Simone Bilesan American gymnast who, with 3 gold medals and a silver medal won in this edition of the Games, seems to have definitively chased away the ““twisties”these mental blocks that forced her to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. A spectacular return for an athlete who, after the 4 gold medals at Rio 2016, became the only one to have won the title at two non-consecutive Olympic Games.
For the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic Olympic gold was the only trophy still to be won. And he achieved it at 37 years and two months, beating Alcaraz in the final and thus completing the Career Golden Slam (triumph of all the Grand Slams and Games) like Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams and Rafa Nadal. And he is also the only one to have won all the most important tennis trophies in history: the 4 Grand Slam tournaments, the 9 Masters 1000, the ATP Finals, the Davis Cup and now the Olympic gold.
“I gave my heart and soul for this gold medal, my first at 37 years old,” Djokovic said emotionally at the end of the match. “I am very happy especially for my Serbia. It was an incredible battle: almost three hours for just two sets.” For Serbia, it is the first gold medal in tennis.
But high-level exploits are also achieved by lesser-known athletes.
The one in Paris is definitely the Olympics Leon Marchand. The 22-year-old swimmer from Toulouse is the athlete who has won the most gold medals of all time in this edition of the Games. Four: in the 200 butterfly, the 200 breaststroke, the 200 medley (Olympic record) and the 400 medley. As well as a bronze medal in the 4×100 medley relay.
Léon Marchand on the podium of the 200 butterfly (Handle)
While Marchand has been on the podium five times, the Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei He did better than him by climbing 6 times, with one silver and 5 bronze, thus obtaining the record for the athlete who won the most medals in this edition.
Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei, six-time medalist (Handle)
The youngest gold medalist came from skateboarding. The fourteen-year-old Australian Arisa TrewShe also won the women's skate park competition ahead of Japan's Cocona Hiraki and Britain's Sky Brown.
Australian skater Arisa Trew (Handle)
Five countries have won their Paris 2024 first olympic medal: Albania, Cape Verde, Dominica, Saint Lucia and the Refugee Olympic Team. Two of them were gold medalists, both in athletics.
A truly golden jump from the triple jumper Thea LaFondwhich gave the first Olympic medal to the Caribbean nation. The 30-year-old Dominican secured her success from her second jump, landing at 15.02 meters. A measurement that immediately proved impossible to beat, also because the rain, sometimes heavy, made conditions difficult for the triples. Silver for Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts with 14.87, bronze for American Jasmine Moore with 14.67.
Dominican triple jumper Thea LaFond celebrates Olympic success (Handle)
Triumph in the Olympic women's 100m final Julien-Alfred wrote a historic and indelible page for sport in Saint Lucia. This is the first medal won by the country since its participation in the Olympic Games. Alfred, 23, who had won the world indoor gold in the 60 meters in March, won in 10''72 on the wet track of the Stade de France, ahead of one of the favorites, the American Sha Carri Richardson, who took silver. in 10″87. Bronze for the American Melissa Jefferson (10''92).
Julien Alfred, athlete from Saint Lucia, rejoices after his victory in the 100 meters (Handle)
Even though his medal was bronze, the American athlete's performance on the pommel horse Stephen Nedoroscik did not go unnoticed, making him one of the darlings of social networks. Partly because of his “with glasses-without glasses” look before and after the performance, which earned him the nickname Clark Kent, Superman without a costume. Partly because, another peculiarity highlighted by the Internet, the 25-year-old devotes himself exclusively to the pommel horse, of which he was world champion in 2021. But he can also solve a Rubik's Cube in less than nine seconds.
Fourth Olympic Games and third Olympic gold medal – after the two in 2008 and 2012, and the bronze medal in 2004 – for the 39-year-old American basketball player LeBron Jamesthe NBA's all-time leading scorer and, with the win, also the best player in U.S. men's national team history.
Five gold medals in five different editions of the Olympic Games, won consecutively, from Beijing 2008 to Paris 2024. This is the feat of the Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez who won the final of the 130kg Greco-Roman category by beating Chilean Yasmani Acosta. Lopez also won five world titles during his career.
Lopez thus becomes a legend. He beat the four consecutive titles of Americans Carl Lewis (athletics, long jump), Michael Phelps (swimming, 200 meters individual medley), Katie Ledecky (swimming, 800 meters freestyle) and Alfred Oerter (athletics, discus), the Dane Paul Elvstrom (sailing) and the Japanese Kaori Icho (wrestling).
Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez (Handle)
