Antoine Dupont brilliance carries France to first Paris 2024 gold medal

France’s Antoine Dupont celebrates winning gold in the rugby sevens, the host nation’s first gold of Paris 2024 (Mike Egerton/PA).

France claimed its first gold medal of Paris 2024 as Antoine Dupont loosened Fiji’s stranglehold on Olympic sevens rugby.

Fiji, gold medallists at Rio 2016 and Tokyo three years ago, had won 17 straight matches at the Games, but that record finally fell as Les Blues roared to a 28-7 victory.