A dominant Ariarne Titmus held off Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky to successfully defend her Olympic 400m freestyle title Saturday, leading from start to finish this Saturday, as German Lukas Maertens surged to the men's gold on day one in the pool in Paris.

States team spearheaded by Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men's 4x100m Olympic relay gold medal ahead of Australia

quartet of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Dressel came home in 3min 09.28sec with Australia

taking silver in 3:10.35 and Italy bronze in 3:10.70.And Australia swam the second fastest time in history

Australia 3:28.922. United States 3:30.203. China 3:30.304. Canada 3:32.995. Sweden 3:33.796.

Australia 3:10.353. Italy 3:10.704. China 3:11.285. Great Britain 3:11.616. Canada 3:12.187.

In Pool A, Canada showed why they were the group favourites against Greece, while Australia beat Spain

Australia started with an important victory over Spain.

allowed them to have the game where they wanted it.Once again, Patty Mills has been a key player for Australia

Fernández has become the first basketball player to participate in six Olympic Games.Patty Mills #5 of Team Australia

At 13:30, Canada-Australia.

Nigeria-Australia at 11:00 and Canada-France at 17:15.

With Friday's unprecedented Opening Ceremony officially opening the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the best athletes from around the globe have begun going head-to-head in an attempt to clinch gold, see their hard work come to fruition, and push their nations up the medal table. 

At the time of writing, as midnight nears on Day One of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Australia has set

the early pace in the medal table.Three golds and two silvers make up the five medals that put Australia

Men's Rugby Sevens is the first team sport to be decided in Paris 2024. And the result was what the tournament organisers had hoped for. France beat Fiji, who had won gold at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, in the final.

But Australia were down to six men when Nick Malouf was sent off.

It looked like a settled game.However, Australia were at their best at that point.

Dietrich Roache had to convert his kick at the posts to put Australia ahead, but it went just wide to

The first matches of this spectacular Olympic event took place on Saturday. It rained on the improvised court next to the "Iron Lady". The spectators, who had already been soaked in the stands during the opening ceremony on Friday, took out their umbrellas again. Cuba beat the USA in the first match of the tournament.

They haven't won gold in the men's competition since Beijing 2008.Mariafe Artacho Del Solar, from Australia

Xinyi of China facing Tokyo 2020 silver medallists Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia

American great Katie Ledecky edged defending champion Ariarne Titmus to be quickest into the Olympic 400m freestyle final Saturday, setting the scene for a titanic battle for gold.

China was fastest into the men's 4x100m freestyle relay final ahead of Australia and Britain.

The Spanish basketball team made their debut this Saturday at Paris 2024 against Australia, in a match

With his minutes against Australia, Rudy set a record by surpassing Pau Gasol, Juan Carlos Navarro, Oscar

All-conquering Chinese divers Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen bagged the first Olympic gold of their careers on Saturday with a superb victory in the women's synchronised three-meter springboard final.

Olympics medal in dramatic fashion, with Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper snatching the bronze from Australia

The Oceania team's record for winning gold medals in a single day of competition is four, achieved at Tokyo 2020. On the first day following the Opening Ceremony at the 2024 Paris Olympics, they have multiple opportunities to match or even surpass this record, particularly in swimming.

World Championships, she was able to beat them and beat the world record.In the men's 400m freestyle, Australia

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Australia, despite leaving some doubts in the first round, have qualified for the semi-finals.

The Spanish women's national team made their debut at the Olympiad this Thursday asserting their status as world champions with a comeback victory against Japan. The efforts from Bonmatí and Caldentey neutralised the initial goal from the Japanese side, a superb free-kick from the edge of the box.

In Group B, Germany secured a 3-0 victory over Australia, while Brazil edged Nigeria 1-0 to close the

Former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina on Thursday withdrew from the Olympic Games tennis tournament, joining men's world number one Jannik Sinner in skipping the event.  The 25-year-old Russian-born Kazakh was down to face Romania's Jaqueline Cristian in the first round of the singles. 

Alternate Daria Saville of Australia will now face China's seventh-ranked Zheng Qinwen.View this post

French athlete and world junior 110m record holder Sasha Zhoya has been given the green light to wear a skirt at Friday's Paris 2024 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

who broke the men's under-20s 110m hurdles world record twice within 24 hours in 2021, was born in Australia

Almost 50,000 police officers from different countries are safeguarding Paris during these Olympic weeks. However, a wave of robberies and criminal acts in the capital has sparked a sense of insecurity that also affects Olympic athletes.

.🇫🇷❌ CONTINÚAN LOS ROBOS EN PARÍS 2024Atletas de ciclismo BMX del Team Australia 🇦🇺 mostraron los

 It is not known what is happening to Australia on the eve of the Games.

The contagion is limited to the water polo team and not to other water-related sports from Australia,

been positive for Covid-19 just days before the Paris Olympics, officials said on Wednesday.In total, Australia

Great Britain will finish third in the Paris 2024 Olympics winning more Gold medals than Tokyo 2020 according to a new supercomputer prediction.

Olympic Games with 16 gold medals and 51 overall seeing them to a 6th-place spot just one point behind Australia

in 5th but ahead of both Australia and Japan.According to OLBG, the SuperComputer analysed historical