France clinches gold medal in Olympic rugby sevens

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00:00It was a golden start for the hosts of France as Antoine Dupont leads Les Bleus to their first

00:05gold medal at the Games in the Rugby Sevens at Aurokus. Stade de France, the superstar

00:11scrum half, getting two tries and setting up another as France pulled off a stunning

00:1728 to 7 victory against two-time gold medalist Fiji. Elsewhere for France there were two medals

00:24in judo. First from Shireen Boukli, she got the first medal for France at this Olympics. She

00:30got a bronze in the under 48 kilo category while Lucas Ramsey then got a silver in his fight,

00:39losing out in his final. There was also another silver for France in the fencing with Auriane

00:44Malobreton getting a silver. In other highlights of the day it was here at the pool in Nantes,

00:51Ariane Titmuss defended her gold medal in the women's 400 meter freestyle. She was hotly

00:58followed by Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh while seven-time gold medalist Katie Ledecky

01:05putting up less than a challenge than expected this evening as she came in third.

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