Paris 2024 day six: Simone Biles wins ninth Olympic medal as she clinches gold
Simone Biles has won her sixth Olympic gold medal in the women's gymnastics all-around final.
The most decorated female gymnast in history took the medal with a 1.199 score gap ahead of second place.
Meanwhile, tennis legend Andy Murray ends his career in a doubles defeat with his partner Dan Evans.
Despite the loss day six of the Paris Games did see Team GB take home silver.
Helen Glover narrowly lose out on gold in the women's rowing four final, while Team GB won bronze in the men's four and women's double sculls.
Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne and Becky Wilde won the first British medal of Thursday in Paris, before Glover looked to complete her comeback.
It was a close finish, but favourites Team GB missed out on the top spot, with the Netherlands winning the race.
In the men's final, Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson won bronze, adding to the remarkable medal Hodgkins Byrne and Wilde won in the women's double sculls.
Wilde had surgery on her forearms ten months ago and Hodgkins-Byrne had taken time away from the sport after Tokyo 2020 to have her son.
Earlier in the day, Team GB fell to defeat in race walking, as Callum Wilkinson finished 16th in the first British medal opportunity of the day, despite coming close to setting a personal best.
Tennis
Andy Murray has ended his career in 6-2 6-4 doubles defeat at Roland Garros.
Murray and Dan Evans took on American duo Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paulin the quarter finals.
Meanwhile, GB teammates Heather Watson and Katie Boulter struggled against their Italian opponents in the scorching parisian heat.
The British pair from Guernsey and Leicester faced third-seeds Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani and fell to defeat 6-3, 6-1.
Gymnastics
Simone Biles made history by winning her second Olympic gymnastics all-around gold medal.
She is the third woman in history to have won a second all-around gold after Larisa Latynina (Soviet Union) and Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia).
The 27-year-old athlete won her sixth gold medal with an impressive floor routine set to a Taylor Swift song, earning a score of 15.066.
But right behind her was her main rival, Rebeca Andrade from Brazil, who initially took the lead at the halfway point of rotations after Biles made a mistake on the uneven bars.
However, that lead was taken by Biles' performances on the balance beam and floor.
USA's Sunisa Lee managed to fight her back to earn a bronze medal.
Team GB's Alice Kinsella came 12th and Georgia-Mae Fenton was 18th.
Rowing
Team GB won bronze in the women's rowing double sculls with Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde.
Wilde and Hodgkins Byrne, in lane two, went out hard from the start and led at the 500m mark, before Romania took over by halfway.
New Zealand eventually moved into pole position for gold, as Wilde and Hodgkins Byrne secured the big achievement of bronze after both taking time away from the sport after Tokyo.
Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten were favourites for the women's rowing four final after a dominant display in the heats, but lost out to the Netherlands.
Two-time Olympic champion Helen Glover, 38, was chosen alongside diver Tom Daley to carry the Union Flag aboard the boat that floated Team GB down the Seine on Friday night.
Glover had twice staged comebacks, once after announcing her retirement in 2016 to start a family before returning for the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, then declaring her surprise aim to step on the podium again in Paris, but just fell short of a fairytale final story.
Team GB then won bronze in the men's four final, with USA taking gold and New Zealand getting silver.
Davidson, Aldridge, Ambler and Wilkes produced a patient race, sweeping past Italy 800 metres from home to get third place.
Race walking
Callum Wilkinson, from Suffolk, was the first Briton in action as the athletics began with the men's 20km race walk final.
He finished 16th with 1:20:31, missing out on setting a personal best by just five seconds.
The 27-year-old finished one minute and 36 seconds behind Ecuadorian champion Brian Pintado, who pulled clear from the leading cluster of four on the final lap to secure victory in 1:18:55.
Brazil’s Caio Bonfim claimed silver in 1:19:09, before Spain’s Alvaro Martin rounded out the podium in 1:19:11.
In June's British national championships in Manchester, Wilkinson broke the British 10km record with a time of 38:43.91, despite having only recently recovered from a rare ankle injury.
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