Paris Olympics: Hong Kong fencer Kong brings day 1 to golden end - as it happened
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The Paris Olympics has roared into life on an action-packed opening day, with Hong Kong’s own Vivian Kong Man-wai making history with another fencing gold.
China has made its own golden start, in the mixed team 10m air pistol and women’s 3m synchronised springboard diving, and the host nation has won their first gold of the Games, in the men’s rugby sevens.
Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem made a winning start to the table tennis mixed doubles, as did Tang Chun-man and Tse Ying-suet in badminton’s mixed doubles. There is also judo, rowing, gymnastics and swimming.
It’s been a long day in Paris, and we’ve been covering every high and low, every smile and tear. Keep following us for comprehensive coverage of day one in the French capital.
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Reporting by Mike Chan and Paul McNamara in Paris, and Josh Ball, Angeline Jiang, Sylvia Ma, Lars Hamer, Ira Gorawara, Meredith Chen and Tom Bell in Hong Kong