Léon Marchand captures 4th Olympic swimming gold, setting off a party across Paris

France has found one of its own heroes at these Olympics in Léon Marchand.

The 22-year-old swimmer became the first athlete in decades to win two individual swimming gold medals on the same night on Wednesday, Stock Market Today: Dow Sinks 611 Points on Rising Recession Fears  both in times that set Olympic records. This made the 22-year-old a household name in the pool. He’s won four in general in these Games after Friday’s night triumph the in the 200-meter individual variety.

La Défense Arena, where Marchand won the men’s 200-meter butterfly and 200-meter breaststroke events, now plays the thunderous chanting of his name.

The Arizona State University star said after the breaststroke final, Critical DMs: Chicago Mix, the Vince Vaughn of popcorn “The crowd was on fire.” Living this as a French person was insane. I am overjoyed.

However, Marchand is not the only French athlete to perform admirably at these Games. Consider also the rugby star Antoine Dupont, Sha’Carri dominates Olympic debut, Grant Fisher earns 10,000m bronze who led his country to gold after making the rare switch from the 15-a-side format to the seven-a-side format.

Prior to Dupont’s arrival, France had little experience playing sevens rugby, but the scrum-half completely changed his team’s Grant Fisher gets first Team USA Track & Field medal of Paris Olympics  fortunes in the sport by winning the Olympic final with a 28-7 victory over two-time champion Fiji.

The following are some of the other athletes who performed admirably at the most recent Olympics held in their own country.

Tokyo Olympics – skateboarders sparkle

Japanese competitors guaranteed 27 gold decorations in Tokyo quite a while back, the third-a large portion of any country behind the USA and China.

Japan won three of the four gold medals offered in the Olympic sport of skateboarding, which was a brand-new addition to the Games’ program.

At age 13, Momiji Nishiya became one of the most youthful ever Olympic bosses as she won the ladies’ road occasion, before Yuto Horigome, Heartbroken US star Caeleb Dressel misses chance to defend Olympic titles in 50-meter free, 100 fly  who protected his title in Paris recently, added one more gold in the men’s occasion the following day. Sakura Yosozumi then won the women’s park skateboarding competition again.

In addition, Yui Ohashi became a star in Tokyo’s pool when she won gold medals in the women’s 200-meter and 400-meter individual medleys.

Rio Olympics – Neymar’s second in the sun

Neymar entered the 2016 Rio Olympics with the assumption for a country on his shoulders, entrusted with directing soccer-distraught Brazil to a first Olympic gold decoration in the game only two years after immense dissatisfaction in the 2014 World Cup hung on home soil.

Neymar delivered at the Maracana Stadium, scoring the crucial penalty against Germany in the final, which ended 1-1 after extra time.

When he defeated Renaud Lavillenie of France in the pole vault, Thiago Braz became only the sixth Brazilian to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.

After winning gold in Rio, Braz went on to win bronze at the Live updates: Paris Olympics, Sha’Carri Richardson seeks redemption as track and field begins Tokyo Games, making him the Olympic record holder. He isn’t contending in Paris having gotten a 16-month doping suspension recently.

Heroes were crowned at the London Olympics on “Super Saturday” The British public will always remember “Super Saturday” as the day that heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, long jumper Greg Rutherford, and distance runner Mo Farah all won gold medals in the same hour.

Farah won gold medals in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the Games, which he defended four years later in Rio. Tennis star Andy Murray had a Biles back on top: Simone Biles clinches second Olympic all-around gold  great summer as well, winning gold medals at the Olympics just a few weeks after winning his first Wimbledon title.

In the velodrome, British athletes also dominated; Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, and Laura Kenny (then Trott) all won multiple gold medals. Heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua made his debut at these Games, defeating Roberto Cammarelle of Italy in the gold medal match.

Defending 110-meter hurdles champion Liu Xiang entered the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the Games’ poster boy, but he withdrew from competition late due to injury. China won a record number of medals.

That didn’t prevent China from winning 48 gold decorations across the Games – more than some other country – ruling across badminton, jumping, table tennis, weightlifting, vaulting, and shooting.

China nearly completed a sweep of the men’s events when gymnast Yang Wei won gold in both the all-around and team events.

Du Li couldn’t defend her title in the women’s 10-meter air rifle competition, so she placed fifth, which was a heartbreaking loss. She won gold, however, in the three positions of the 50-meter rifle.

Olympics in Athens: Greece, led by 17-year-old Ilias Iliadis, won six gold medals in Athens in 2004, its highest tally in more than 100 years and a modest total when compared to other host nations.

Judoka Ilias Iliadis, a 17-year-old from Georgia who eventually settled in Greece, was one of the medal winners. He even carried the blue-and-white-striped flag at the opening ceremony in Beijing.

With his victory in the half middleweight division, Iliadis became Greece’s first Olympic judo champion and almost immediately became a household name.

Ian Thorpe was establishing himself as one of the best swimmers of his generation at the start of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, even though this was his first time competing at the Games. “Thorpedo” wins triple gold.

The man who earned the moniker “Thorpedo” went on to become Sydney’s most decorated athlete, winning gold medals in the 400-meter, 4×100-meter, and 4×200-meter freestyle events as well as two silver medals.

Cathy Freeman was the main attraction on the track. She became the Olympic dynamo at the beginning of the Games and went on to win gold in the 400-meter race, becoming one of the few Indigenous Australians to achieve sporting success.

Freeman displayed the Australian and Aboriginal flags with pride during her lap of honor, and the nation’s then-Prime Minister John Howard referred to her victory in the 400 meters as “one of the great sporting events of our generation.”

Michael Johnson dominates the 1996 Atlanta Olympics The United States won 44 gold medals. Many of these winners went on to become sports icons; perhaps none more so than Michael Johnson, who won the 200 and 400 meters in a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Additionally, there was the women’s all-around gymnastics team known as the “Magnificent Seven,” which consisted of Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Kerri Strug, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden, and Jaycie Phelps.

In a remarkable moment, Strug persevered through obvious pain to complete her second vault and continued competing in the team final after suffering an ankle injury. She arrived with clear distress however by the by assist the US with taking a first title in the occasion in front of Russia and Romania.

At the Atlanta Olympics, not only the gymnasts’ team did well. The first women’s soccer competition was held, and in the gold medal match, the United States defeated China 2-1 thanks to goals from Shannon MacMillan and Tiffeny Milbrett, in front of more than 76,000 fans.