- Andy Murray loses doubles match to finish his career
- JK Rowling weighs in on 46-second boxing contest
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Paris saw the best of Olympic sport as Andy Murray ended his career with one last night under the floodlights and US superstar gymnast Simone Biles made history but a decision to allow a female boxer to fight a rival who had previously failed a gender test left organisers under fire.
Murray, Great Britain’s most successful tennis player of the Open era, and a two-time Olympic champion, had hoped that his doughty double act with Dan Evans might delay his retirement by just a few more days. But the US team, Taylor Fritz, 26, and Tommy Paul, 27, proved too strong on Court Suzanne-Lenglen at Roland Garros.