Paris Olympics day 3 wrap: Titmus v O'Callaghan in battle of the pool

The Canberra Times

Caden Helmers has the recap of day three at the Paris Olympic Games, with Mollie O'Callaghan beating Ariarne Titmus in the pool and Chris Burton winning silver in equestrian.

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00:00Well, it was billed as a battle of the titans and it certainly lived up to the hype as Molly

00:17O'Callaghan held off Ariane Titmuss to win gold in the women's 200 metre freestyle final

00:22in Paris overnight.

00:24They became the first Australian pair to finish 1-2 since Ian Thorpe pipped Grant Hackett

00:29in Athens 20 years ago.

00:30Now, at that time, Molly O'Callaghan was four months old, now she's a four-time Olympic

00:35gold medalist and you would think at this rate she's certainly going to become Australia's

00:39most decorated Olympian of all time.

00:42Moving on, Chris Burton, he fashioned makeshift jumps out of bricks and broomsticks as a kid

00:46and today he's an Olympic silver medalist after equestrian individual eventing success

00:52on a loaned British horse he's only been riding for five months.

00:56Night break for Harry Garside after his Olympic boxing dream ended but Tere Moana Tere Moana

01:01moves on after a stoppage win in front of heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in the

01:06crowd.

01:07Some other highlights, how about this, Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez competed at the Olympics

01:12while seven months pregnant and Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in the 60th and possibly

01:18last chapter of a historic rivalry.

01:21Plenty of medals on offer again tonight with Maddie Levi and the Australian women's seven

01:25side storming into the semi-finals.

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