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Antoine Dupont was brilliant to lead hosts France to a first gold medal at the Paris Olympics as they claimed a 28-7 men’s rugby sevens win against Fiji. France initially fell behind and had the game tied at 7-7 at the break before Antoine Dupont came on and scored twice to help the Olympics hosts to complete the turnaround. With French flags flying high, the electric home crowd was deafening as the final whistle was blown. Fiji had won the two other men’s rugby sevens events at Olympics at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, but had to settle for silver this time. South Africa won bronze earlier after d…

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