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Australia had another golden day at the Paris Olympics via Matt Ebden and John Peers in the men's tennis doubles.
Three more medals were also added to the tally in the pool, as the swimming program enters its final action tonight.
But there was plenty more happening around the traps in Paris that didn't involve Australia, from some incredible runs on the track — and off the track as well.
Here's everything you might have missed overnight.
1. Alfred does it for her dad and St Lucia
The memories flooded back as Julien Alfred rang the victory bell at the end of the track to signify that she was indeed an Olympic 100m champion.
It was a sound that made everything really feel real.
She remembered running barefoot all over the place as a kid growing up in St Lucia. All those who helped her along the way, too.
And the most powerful memory, the one that made her burst into tears, the thoughts of her late father, who believed this sort of moment was possible.
That's who this was for, Alfred said, after powering through the rain to hold off Sha'Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson and the rest of the field to win the first Olympic medal for her island country.
"He believed I could be an Olympian. That I can be here," Alfred said after winning in a time of 10.72 seconds.
"To come out with the win, happy I was able to do it. I want to attribute it to (my father). … He'd be so boastful of his daughter being an Olympian."
To get ready for the race, Alfred spent the morning watching footage of Jamaican sensation Usain Bolt.
“I just watched how he just executed,” Alfred said.
2. Swiss triathlete battles stomach infection
Three days after the men's triathlon at the Paris Olympics, the Swiss team said one of its athletes has a stomach infection and will not compete in the mixed relay event.
It was "impossible to say" if Adrien Briffod's gastrointestinal infection is linked to water quality in the River Seine, the Switzerland Olympic team said in a statement.
No other cases of Olympic triathletes with stomach problems had been found among other countries that took part in the individual races, the Swiss team's doctor Hanspeter Betschart said.
The health risks of sending triathletes and marathon swimmers into the long-polluted Seine after a massive project to clean the water was among the biggest issues for Olympics organisers — and could yet be the best Games legacy for the city of Paris.
French president Emmanuel Macron had promised to swim in the Seine to show it is safe and the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, went in the water one week before the Olympics opened.
Lower-quality water after heavy rains pushed back the scheduled Tuesday morning race in men's triathlon for more than 24 hours. It started immediately after the women's race on Wednesday.
Briffod spent 21 minutes in the Seine completing the 1.5km swimming section to open the race that he finished in 49th place.
3. Canada knocked out following drone scandal
Canada women's soccer team lost a penalty shootout to Germany in the quarter finals of the Paris Games, ending an Olympic run marred by a drone-spying scandal.
Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger saved two penalties then converted on her own attempt to send Germany into the semifinals with a 4-2 shootout win after a scoreless draw through extra time.
Canada's players were mentally exhausted following the loss, after winning all of their matches in the group stage to overcome a points deduction as punishment for video surveillance of an opponent.
"I can't quite find the tears because I shed them all this past week," Canada defender Vanessa Gilles said. "So to have gotten this far, I think is a testament to our group."
Germany, which won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, will play the United States in the semifinals Tuesday in Lyon. The United States defeated Germany 4-1 earlier in the tournament.
4. Cyclist stops in at a bar mid-race
Back in the old days, until the mid-1960s, professional riders would stop at cafes to get food, water or even wine to refuel.
German Nils Politt made a similar pit stop during the men's road race when he stopped at the Café des Deux Moulins, although it wasn't to fill up — it was the opposite, in fact.
The 30-year-old was seen getting out of the bar on the rue Lepic at the bottom of the Butte Montmartre climb, jump over the barriers and remount his bike to finish the race 70th, almost 20 minutes behind gold medal winner Remco Evenepoel of Belgium.
"I did not count how much time it took me," Politt told reporters after confirming he had to stop for a toilet break.
"It was really warm, we were drinking a lot of water, ate a lot of gels and normally I don't have problems but today I had an upset stomach."
5. Kharlan earns Ukraine's first gold of the Games
Olga Kharlan got the winning touch for Ukraine's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, ripped off her fencing mask and sank to her knees.
When she got up again, it was to dance on the piste wrapped in a Ukrainian flag and join teammates Alina Komashchuk, Olena Kravatska and Yuliia Bakastova in the celebrations.
Kharlan went in for the final leg of the women's team saber final with South Korea, needing to turn around a three-point deficit to keep her team in the contest.
She'd been thinking of Ukrainian troops fighting on the front lines as motivation, trying to keep her own emotions in check "like a robot."
And then she heard the crowd in Paris chanting her name.
"I couldn't believe it. They're shouting 'Olga, Olga!'" she said.
"It's beautiful. Thank you, Paris."
Facing South Korea's Jeon Ha-young, Kharlan said she realised the key right then was to relax. She did just that, and scored the eight points Ukraine needed for a 45-42 victory.
"At some point I said 'I'm going to have fun, I'm going to enjoy this moment,'" Kharlan said.
"I enjoyed all the fencing and just went for it."
It was Kharlan's second medal in Paris after an individual saber bronze, and the sixth overall from five Summer Games for the country's most decorated Olympian. She hadn't won a gold medal since 2008 in Beijing, when she was 17.
She'll leave Paris with her two medals a year after she was disqualified at the world championships for refusing to shake the hand of a Russian fencer, something that put her Olympic qualification in jeopardy. The International Olympic Committee stepped in to allow Kharlan a direct spot at the Paris Games.
6. 'Once in a lifetime talent' stuns for the Dutch
Forget about mixed relay. This was a one-woman show.
When Dutch sprinter Femke Bol entered the final turn of the 4x400m mixed relay in fourth position under a downpour, a medal — let alone a victory — seemed like a difficult proposition for her orange-clad team.
That's when Bol accelerated into a another gear and proceeded to reel in the three women ahead of her.
"I keep telling people it's just two words. It's 'Femke Bol.' She's just special," said Dutch lead-off man Eugene Omalla.
"She's a once-in-a-lifetime talent."
Bol, whose best race is the 400m hurdles, ran the anchor lap in 47.93 seconds, and the Netherlands team of Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Isaya Klein Ikkink and Bol won the race at the Paris Olympics in 3 minutes, 7.43 seconds — 0.31 clear of the United States.
Bol pulled a similar stunt last year at world championships in the women's 4x400m, rallying from well behind late to earn a gold medal. That came after she tripped and fell in the home stretch of the mixed relay, where she was making up ground on the US.
"Just keep going. Keep going," Bol said of her mindset.
"I channelled my angerness from Budapest back and I saw my teammates already cheering on me coming back."
7. Olympics veteran calls it a day
After 10 Olympics and 36 years, Nino Salukvadze says she's finally done.
The pistol shooter from Georgia has been ever-present at the Summer Olympics since Seoul in 1988, when she competed for what was still the Soviet Union. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, she became the first female athlete to compete at the Games 10 times.
In that time, the 55-year-old has seen the Games become bigger and more professionalised and says the competition is tougher than ever.
Salukvadze considered retiring after her first Olympics, after she'd won gold and silver medals as a 19-year-old. She nearly walked away in the 1990s, when she struggled to support her family financially in newly independent Georgia. She announced her retirement after the Tokyo Games in 2021.
This time, though, she says she is done "for sure."
Coming to the Paris Olympics was about honouring her father, Vakhtang, who was also her coach. After the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, he talked her out of retirement for one last push.
"He never asked for anything in his life. We had the kind of relationship where we understood each other just with our eyes," Salukvadze said.
"'If you quit sports, you can't come back. Just try,'" she recalled her father saying. "It was the only favour he asked me for his whole life. I thought he perhaps wouldn't be able to ask again. I gathered all my strength, for his sake."
Salukvadze's father died earlier this year at the age of 93, but he lived to see his daughter qualify for a spot for Georgia.
8. Snoop looks fly at the equestrian
This is Snoop Dogg's Olympic Games, we're just here to watch him at them.
The rapper joined Martha Stewart in decking themselves in the full equestrian gear to support the US team during the dressage.
Snoop, who is on assignment with NBC, has been a common sight around the Games, always dressed immaculately and always full of support for the American team.
He and fellow rapper Flavor Flav have been stealing the headlines in Team USA throughout the Games, in one of the weirder yet endearing partnerships in the history of the Olympics.
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