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New Zealand kayak great Lisa Carrington paddled to a third Paris Olympics gold and eighth overall on Saturday in the 500-metre race while Czech Josef Dostál got the elusive Games gold at last in the men’s 1,000m event. Carrington triumphed in an Olympic best 1 minutes 47.36 seconds ahead of Tamara Csipes of Hungary and Denmark’s Emma Aastrand Jorgensen for an identical podium as at the Tokyo 2020 Games. “It’s amazing to be part of a special group of women who are just dominating around the world,” Carrington said. Carrington had previously won K2 and K4 golds in Paris for a treble like in Toky…

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