Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus defended her women’s 400-metre freestyle gold at the Paris Olympics, while American superstar Katie Ledecky had to settle for bronze. Titmus set the fastest time of 3 minutes 57.49 seconds to defeat Canada’s Summer McIntosh by 0.88 seconds. Ledecky was 3.37 seconds away from her gold medal dream. The American won gold in the same event in Rio 2016 and silver in Tokyo 2020. It’s her third Olympic medal in the event — the most of any athlete.