WIMBLEDON, England -- The British Parliament outlawed the paddle in 1987 but apparently news has not filtered down from Westminster to Wimbledon, the leafy district in the southwest corner of the great city of London. Really, this might have been illegal. Andy Murray did not merely defeat arguably the best player in the history of tennis in the Olympic final, he went all Tom Brown's School Days on Roger Federer's tanned and regal hide. This one left a welt.

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