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  1. Pitchford knocked out of men's singles table tennispublished at 09:54 31 July

    Team GB table tennis player Liam PitchfordImage source, Getty Images

    Liam Pitchford was eliminated from the men's singles table tennis at the Olympics after a second-round defeat by Slovenia's Darko Jorgic in Paris.

    Pitchford, 31, fought back after losing the first two sets to make the score 3-2, but Jorgic pulled clear with a dominant sixth set.

    The Paris Olympics are Pitchford's fourth Games but he has never made it into the last 16, with Jorgic also knocking him out at the same stage at Tokyo 2020.

    The last 16 begins at 14:00 BST on Wednesday.

  2. Great Britain narrowly miss out on women's team bronzepublished at 19:55 30 July

    Katie Stafford
    BBC Sport journalist

    Alice Kinsella looks deflatedImage source, Getty Images

    Great Britain's women's team missed out on a successive Olympic bronze medal by 0.234 of a point.

    The quartet of Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Becky Downie and Ruby Evans scored 164.263 points but it was just short of Brazil's tally.

    Team USA, featuring the now five-time Olympic champion Simone Biles, won gold while Italy claimed silver.

    Downie registered the highest uneven bars score of the final with an impressive 14.933, while Ruby Evans pulled off a strong 13.966 vault at her Games debut.

    "We said ‘we would go all out’ and we left everything out there," Downie told BBC Sport. "It is a shame it didn’t go our way today."

    GB won women's team bronze at Tokyo 2020 for the first time since 1928. Of the team that featured in Japan, only Alice Kinsella remains because twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova were injured.

    The disappointment for the women follows GB's men's fourth-place finish in the team final on Monday.

  3. Gilmour's Olympics over after loss to Bingjiaopublished at 19:53 30 July

    Kirsty Gilmour plays a shot Image source, Getty Images

    Team GB's Kirsty Gilmour exited the Paris Olympics as she lost her second badminton group match to China's He Bingjiao.

    Gilmour, 30, was representing Team GB in her third Olympic Games and has never reached the knockout stage.

    The Scot pushed Bingjiao close in the opening game, losing 24-22, but was swept aside 21-8 in the second by the world number eight.

    Bingjiao has topped the round-robin group stage, which means she progresses.