Day 9: looking back at the action
World records broken, defending champions prevailing, and one of the closest finishes to the men's 100 metre dash in Olympic history, were among the highlights of Day 9 in Paris. With the Games now in their second week, the US heads the medals table with 19 golds while China are second with the same amount of golds but fewer medals overall than the Americans. Hosts France are third. Here's a look at what happened:

China ends American dominance of men's medley relay China de-throned the United States in the men's 4x100m medley relay, winning gold in a time of 3 minutes, 27.46 seconds, edging the US into silver by 0.55 seconds while France claimed the bronze. Still, the Americans closed out the meet at the top of the swimming medals table thanks to world record efforts from Bobby Finke in the men's 1,500m freestyle and the US women in the 4x100m medley relay. Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom won the other gold of the night in the women's 50m freestyle. 

Liu Yang defends his Olympic rings Team China dominated the podium with a gold and silver in the men’s rings final at Bercy Arena in Paris. Liu Yang, who is the reigning Olympic champion in this event, earned a score of 15.300 with a difficulty of 6.400 and an executive score of 8.900 to land him the gold. His Chinese counterpart Zou Jingyuan, who is dubbed the king of parallel bars, came behind with a score of 15.23. Also in gymnastics, Algeria's Kaylia Nemour became the first African to win an Olympic medal in the sport when she secured the gold on the uneven bars while the Philippines celebrated their second gold of the competition when Carlos Edriel Yulo won the men's vault, a day after winning the individual floor title.

Fan too good for Moregard China's dominance of the Olympic table tennis tournament continued as Fan Zhendong won gold in the men's singles, beating his Swedish opponent Truls Moregard 4-1 in the final. The result made up for his losing the final in Tokyo three years ago. 

Reigning champions prevail in men's doubles Chinese Taipei got the better of Team China in the final of the men's badminton doubles. Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin successfully defended the title they first won in Tokyo, defeating Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang 2-1. 

Djokovic wins Olympic gold at last In tennis, Novak Djokovic completed his career Golden Slam as the 37-year-old Serb fought off Spain's Carlos Alcaraz to claim the first Olympic title of his career, winning 7-6(3) 7-6(2) in front of an enthralled crowd at Roland Garros.

Victory by the thinnest of margins World champion Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79 seconds to claim gold for the US in a dramatic men's 100m final. In a photo-finish, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson claimed silver, just five-thousandths of a second off Lyles' pace. Lyles' US teammate Fred Kerley took bronze in 9.81 seconds.

Halliday hanging on Hong Kong, China sailor Nicholas Halliday moved up one place in the men's dinghy after completing two more races. Halliday came in 15th and 32nd place respectively on the fourth day of the event. The 25-year-old still has two more races to go on the course in Marseille on Monday.

Ceci Lee has a solid outing on the road Hong Kong, China's Ceci Lee completed the women's road cycling race in 4 hours, 10 minutes and 47 seconds, around 11 minutes behind gold medalist Kristen Faulkner of the United States. The SAR athlete ranked 64th overall out of 92 cyclists, with 14 unable to complete the race.