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British tennis legend Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men’s Olympic singles, he said in a statement. The double Olympic gold medalist said that that he will still take part in the Olympic men’s doubles with fellow Team GB member Dan Evans.

“I’ve take the decision to withdraw from the singles to concentrate on the doubles with Dan. Our practice has been great and we’re playing well together,” Murray said in a statement Thursday. “Really looking forward to getting started and representing GB one more time.”

The 37-year-old confirmed earlier this week that he will retire from professional tennis after the Paris Games, following years of injury problems. The tennis player has particularly struggled for fitness in recent weeks in the wake of surgery to remove a spinal cyst.

Murray pulled out of the men’s singles tournament at Wimbledon earlier this month, but still played doubles alongside his brother Jamie.

Eagle-eyed photographers in Paris caught the moon rising perfectly in alignment with the glowing Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower last night.

The Olympic Games are beamed to billions of people around the world, giving viewers a real-time, close-up look at every pole vault, layup, breaststroke and backflip.

But there is a crucial part of the Olympics experience that remains largely unknown to spectators, sealed off from the camera crews and off-limits to cheering fans — the Olympic Village.

In recent weeks, NBC News spoke with decorated Olympians about life inside the sprawling residential complexes where thousands of athletes sleep, eat, train and socialize. They likened the villages to summer camps, college dorms, crowded hotels and — in the words of gold medalist swimmer Mark Spitz — a “gigantic cruise ship.”

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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. That’s the slogan that drives Team USA’s Olympic alternates.

A slew of season-ending injuries rocked the nation’s best gymnasts at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, highlighting the importance of understudies on the sport’s biggest stage.

“If anything happens, I’ll be ready,” said Olympic alternate Joscelyn Roberson.

The Texarkana-native and training mate of Simone Biles was just one spot away from making the five-person U.S. women’s gymnastics team, but she can still call herself an Olympian.

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