The Stade de France saw some astonishing athletics as American Gabby Thomas finally claimed the global title she has promised for so long when she delivered a dominant performance to take Olympic 200 metres gold, as British sprinters, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita finished within 0.03 secs of a medal in the women's 200m.

For Thomas, she wanted to walk away from athletics on several occasions, she said following her dominant victory in Paris. The 27-year-old American, who captured bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Games and silver at last year's World Championships, secured her first global title after beating 100 metres champion Julien Alfred and compatriot Brittany Brown to win gold.

"Running track in college, there were many times where I thought I would quit," Thomas told reporters. "When I went pro, growing pains of joining a professional training group are real, there are a lot of egos, I didn't think that I was going to be cut out for it.

"I fell out of love with athletics and told my agents 'I'm out and I'm done'. I wrote am email, I said 'I'm done running professionally, I'm going to go pursue other endeavours with my life'.

Thomas (pic) adopted a pug named Rico, saying the dog helped her through trying times when running was not going well. "In every race that I ran, there were a lot of eyeballs on me," she said.

"There were a lot of expectations. And that was definitely a lot more pressure. And I had to adapt.

“That's what all of the best athletes do. That's what all of the greats do.

“You're forced to adapt when you're faced with a new challenge." It was the first time since 1976 that there was no Jamaican on the podium in the Olympic women's 200 metres.

In the 1500m final, Brit, Josh Kerr, claimed a silver medal, whilst Team GB were second in the men's team sprint and skateboarder Sky Brown won bronze on day 11 of the Paris Olympics. Kerr upgraded his bronze from the Tokyo Games, but his much-anticipated battle with Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen had an unexpected twist.

Having made it on to the podium in Tokyo three years ago, 16-year-old Sky claimed her second consecutive bronze medal a mad and highly exciting Place de La Concorde, which saw the very best in thrills and spills that was highly entertaining. Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull continued Great Britain's medal-winning start at the Olympic velodrome, after gold in the women's team sprint.

But reigning champions, the Netherlands, were the country to beat in the men's team sprint event, have won five of the past six men's team sprint World Championship titles - and so it proved.

The women's 3,000 metres steeplechase saw Bahrain's Winfred Yavi win a gold medal, dethroning Uganda's Peruth Chemutai who had to settle for silver.