As Australia celebrated two more silvers being added to the ever-growing medal tally, there was a heap of action you might have missed that went on overnight in Paris.

From an American gymnast set to be stripped of her bronze medal, to an Australian weightlifter just missing out on a place on the podium, here are the bits and pieces that might have flown under the radar. 

1. American gymnast set to lose her bronze medal

American gymnast Jordan Chiles is set to lose her bronze medal in the women's artistic gymnastics floor exercise competition after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favour of an appeal by Romania's Ana Barbosu, who will move up to third place.

Barbosu and her team had appealed to CAS that an inquiry filed over the results in that event was done so past the one-minute deadline, and that Chiles should not be awarded the score of 13.766 that lifted her to third place behind winner Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and silver medallist Simone Biles of the United States.

Chiles had initially been awarded a score of 13.666, while Barbosu scored 13.700.

"The inquiry submitted on behalf of Ms Jordan Chiles in the final of the women's floor exercise was raised after the conclusion of the one-minute deadline," CAS said.

"The initial score of 13.666 given to Ms Jordan Chiles in the final of the women's floor exercise shall be reinstated."

CAS also ordered the international gymnastics federation FIG to determine the ranking of the final and "assign the medal(s) in accordance with the above decision".

The decision does not affect either Andrade or Biles, who scored 14.166 and 14.133 respectively.

In a joint statement, US Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee said they were devastated by the decision.

"The inquiry into the Difficulty Value of Jordan Chiles's floor exercise routine was filed in good faith and, we believed, in accordance with FIG rules to ensure accurate scoring," they said.

The inquiry led to heartbreaking scenes for Barbosu, who had been celebrating bronze with the Romanian flag in hand, before looking up at the scoreboard in shock to find the medal had been taken away from her. The incident led gymnastics great Nadia Comaneci to tweet "I can't believe we play with athletes mental health and emotions like this … let's protect them."

2. Team GB doctors help save the life of boxing coach

Uzbekistan's beloved head boxing coach was revived from apparent cardiac arrest on Thursday by two members of Britain's training staff after celebrating his team's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, his fighters confirmed.

The Uzbek team went on to win five golds in tribute to Tulkin Kilichev, who is recovering in a Paris hospital.

"[Kilichev] is more than a coach or a father, in fact," Bakhodir Jalolov said after winning his second super heavyweight gold medal. 

"He has raised us. He educated us. He has transmitted the sports spirit to us. He has been with me in my heart, and tomorrow we will be going to visit him in the hospital."

Kilichev fell ill backstage after flyweight Hasanboy Dusmatov won Uzbekistan's first gold medal Thursday. 

According to GB Boxing, team doctor Harj Singh and physical therapist Robbie Lillis found Kilichev in life-threatening distress. They performed CPR on the coach, and Lillis also used a defibrillator, the team said.

Jalolov said Kilichev remained in contact with the team over the past two days while recovering, and his fighters responded with a historic performance.

Jalolov was the last of Uzbekistan's five Paris champions to climb the podium in the best Olympic boxing performance since Cuba also won five golds at the 2004 Athens Games.

3. Ukrainian parliamentarian retires from wrestling

Few people can boast as intriguing a mix of professions as Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk.

The 33-year-old member of the Ukraine parliament officially retired from wrestling in Paris, having won bronze in the 87kg Greco-Roman category.

Beleniuk placed his boots in the middle of the mat after his last bout, then turned to matters far more serious.

"Today, I am very happy that I can take the medal," he said.

"But for me, as a Ukrainian citizen, as a Ukrainian athlete, it is very important that Ukraine should be in the future. Because we don't know about our future, unfortunately."

Beleniuk is no stranger to success, having won gold at Tokyo in 2021 and silver at Rio in 2016.

He's also no stranger to a little levity.

When asked why he was retiring, his answer was simple.

"I’m old," he said, after just the briefest of pauses.

4. Proposals become a trend at the Games

It's not just gold medals that are being thrown around in Paris.

Gold rings – specifically engagement rings – have been a bit of a hit, too.

Just moments after China's Huang Ya Qiong won gold in Badminton, her partner (and fellow Chinese badminton player) Li Yuchen dropped to one knee.

Spoiler alert: she said yes.

"For me, the proposal is very surprising because I have been preparing for the game," Huang said through an interpreter.

"Today I am an Olympic champion and I got proposed [to], so that's something I didn't expect."

And it's not the only proposal we've seen, believe it or not.

French athlete Alice Finot also proposed to her boyfriend after breaking the European record in the steeplechase final.

With a time of 8:58.67, Finot came in fourth behind medallists Winfred Yavi of Bahrain, Peruth Chemutai of Uganda, and Faith Cherotich of Kenya.

Perhaps most unusual was her choice of jewellery.

Instead of a ring, she stuck an Olympic pin on her now fiance's shirt.

5. Lin Yu-ting wins gold

Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won a gold medal in the women's featherweight division at the Paris Olympics, following Imane Khelif's lead a day earlier with a glittering response to the intense scrutiny faced by both fighters inside the ring and around the world over misconceptions about their gender.

Lin routed Julia Szeremeta of Poland 5:0 in the final at Roland Garros, capping her four-fight unbeaten run through Paris by winning Taiwan's first Olympic boxing gold medal.

"I feel incredible," Lin said after her fourth consecutive 5:0 win. 

"I want to thank everyone who has supported me, and thanks to my team and everyone in Taiwan. They gave me the power."

Khelif won Algeria's first women's boxing medal with a decisive victory in the welterweight division final, beating Yang Liu of China.

Khelif's lawyer said on Sunday morning that they had filed a formal legal complaint about the boxer's treatment during the Games, citing being the victim of online harassment.

6. Americans dominate the 4x400m relay

Rai Benjamin held off Letsile Tebogo on the anchor leg to give the United States a gold medal and an Olympic-record time in the men's 4x400m relay.

"I calculated that run very well to a tee," Benjamin said. 

"I have a really good, high 'track IQ' on people and how they run and how to do a quick time, so I didn't have to get out too hard. Let's just save it up to come home.'"

Benjamin added this Olympic title to the one he claimed in the 400m hurdles a night earlier and prevented 200m champion Tebogo from giving Botswana another triumph over the Americans.

Meanwhile, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas teamed up for America's 14th gold and 34th overall medal at the track, wrapping up the Olympic action at the Stade de France with a 4.23-second runaway in the women's 4x400m relay.

The gold medallists in the 400m hurdles and 200m took care of legs two and three for the United States, handing a 30m lead to Alexis Holmes, who didn't lose any ground.

McLaughlin-Levrone, who owns the world's fourth-fastest time in the 400m to go with her latest world record in hurdles, ran her leg in 47.71. That was .91 seconds faster than the next fastest woman in the field, Femke Bol, who took the Netherlands to silver.

7. Kiwi wins high jump gold, refuses chance to share the medal

First they put the bar up higher. Then they lowered it.

Wherever they put the bar, American Shelby McEwen and world indoor champion Hamish Kerr of New Zealand couldn't clear it in an interminable jump-off for the high jump title at the Paris Olympics.

It was Kerr who finally broke the streak of failures when he got over 2.34m to take the gold after 11-straight misses in regulation and the jump-off between the two of them. 

There were so many misses that there wasn't enough room on the scoreboard for all the Xs.

McEwen was left with the silver, with both he and Kerr having cleared 2.36m in regulation.

The competitors could have chosen to tie and both would have received a gold medal, which is exactly what happened at the Tokyo Olympics between Mutaz Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy.

"To do it the way I did it was just amazing," Kerr said. 

"It was crazy."

Barshim took the bronze at 2.34m. Tamberi was eliminated early on.

"I have so much respect for what they did in Tokyo. But I always thought that to add to the story and to be able to be given the chance to actually do the jump-off would be so amazing," Kerr said. 

"I knew straight away that we were going to make history and we did that."

8. Egyptian wrestler released without charge over incident

An Egyptian Olympic wrestler arrested in Paris on sexual assault charges has been released from police custody with all charges dropped, French prosecutors said.

Tokyo bronze medal-winning wrestler Mohamed Ibrahim el-Sayed was arrested early on Friday after allegedly groping a woman from behind outside a Paris cafe.

A statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office said the police custody order for a 26-year-old Olympic wrestler from Egypt, who was not named, "has been lifted and all proceedings [against him] have been terminated without further action because the offence is insufficiently serious".

The Egyptian Olympic Committee said in a statement the investigation into sexual harassment allegations against el-Sayed had been shelved. It said the wrestler's release came after reviewing CCTV video of the alleged incident.

9. Tears for Aussie weightlifter after almost claiming a medal

Eileen Cikamatana was in tears and her coach Paul Coffa is reconsidering retirement after the Australians fell short of their lofty Olympic weightlifting goals.

Coffa had confidently predicted the 24-year-old would win a medal, but the Fijian-born Cikamatana underperformed in the clean and jerk and finished fourth.

Norwegian Solfrid Koanda won gold in the 81kg class with an Olympic record total of 275kg.

Koanda's final clean and jerk lift of 154kg also broke the Olympic mark.

"It's pretty disappointing not to be on the podium. But it happens — we have good days, we have bad days," Cikamatana said of her Olympic debut.

"It was just a bad day, especially in the clean and jerk. It was not my day.

"We've worked so hard to be where we are today. But it's life, I can't say much about it … I didn't deliver."

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