A wrap of the big international stories from day five at the Olympics.
HOME FAVOURITE LEON Marchand wrote his name into the Olympic history books with a phenomenal double gold on a pulsating night in the Paris pool Wednesday, as Japanese gymnast Shinnosuke Oka took a thrilling all-around title.
He followed up less than two hours later with victory in the 200m breaststroke, tricolore flags waving around the stadium as the crowd cried out every time he bobbed his head up to breathe. But Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan will have to wait another four years for a freestyle double as the 200m champion was beaten into a surprising fourth place.
At the age of 38 and beset with injuries, Nadal is unlikely to grace the Roland Garros clay again but his record there will probably never be beaten. Oka, 20, claimed gold ahead of Chinese duo Zhang Boheng in second, with Xiao Ruoteng taking bronze as Hashimoto finished sixth.
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