Brian Daniel Pintado of Ecuador and China’s Yang Jiayu won 20 kilometre race walks as the athletics events promising plenty of fireworks started at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. The 35 km world championship runner-up Pintado prevailed at the foot of the Eiffel Tower with a late surge, 14 seconds ahead of Brazilian Caio Bonfim. World champion Álvaro Martin of Spain took bronze ahead of the Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Massimo Stano of Italy. Pintado emulates Perez Pintado is the second 20 km gold medallist from Ecuador, after famous countryman Jefferson Perez did it in 1996. Perez also won three…