Gail Emms announced her retirement before the Olympics and today played her final match. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Gail Emms’ international badminton career ended with a straight-games defeat in the mixed doubles quarter-finals. Emms, together with her partner Nathan Robertson lost 21-19, 21-12 to the Korean pair Lee Yongdae and Lee Hyojung.
Emms confirmed before the Olympics began [...]

Fallon reacts to his defeat to Paischer. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
Predictions that Team GB might challenge the odds-on favourites Australia in the “battle for fourth” in Beijing seem that little bit less likely to be fulfilled after former world champion Craig Fallon was defeated by the Austrian Ludwig Paischer in the second round of the men’s [...]