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.