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The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Rendell, Daniel Harris, Yara El-Shaboury, Barry Glendenning Will Unwin and Angus Fontaine

Paris 2024 day six: Murray’s career over after doubles defeat, plus swimming finals – as it happened

Andy Murray waves to the crowd at Roland Garros after he and Dan Evans lost to Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul.
Andy Murray waves to the crowd at Roland Garros after he and Dan Evans lost to Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

Thank you for joining us for another day of thrilling Olympic action. We’ve seen the end of Andy Murray’s career, Simon Biles add another gold to her collection and Iga Swiatek’s Roland Garros record end. Below are just some of the day’s top stories. We will be back tomorrow morning but until then have a good rest of the day/night wherever you are.

It had just turned 20 minutes past eight when Simone Biles stepped out on to the floor for her final routine. The centre of the arena was quiet and still, every other apparatus vacant. She had the place to herself and the undivided ­attention of every single person there.

Zinedine Zidane was watching, so was Steph Curry, Tony Hawk and Nadia Comaneci, four of the finest athletes of the past hundred years, all come along to see another of them. Like Comaneci said in a live interview on the big screen at the beginning of the session: “Everyone’s here to see the amazing Simone Biles.” She waited a beat then added: “And 23 other gymnasts.”

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