Andy Murray Wins Olympic Gold Medal at Wimbledon - First British male in 75 Years to win a final at - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18907001[/url] [quote]Andy Murray captured the biggest title of his career with an emphatic victory over Roger Federer in the Olympic men's singles final at Wimbledon. Murray beat the Swiss world number one in straight sets, 6-2 6-1 6-4, on a raucous Centre Court. [B]The 25-year-old Scot had never beaten Federer in a best-of-five-sets match and lost to him in the Wimbledon final.[/B] [B]He is the first British man to win the Olympic singles gold medal since Josiah Ritchie in 1908.[/B] Tim Henman BBC Sport "What a response from 28 days ago. To win 6-2 6-1 6-4 on Centre Court...[B]he's not only beaten Federer, he's taken him apart.[/B] To go from 2-2 in the first set to 6-2 5-0 - that doesn't happen to Roger Federer! There were tears of disappointment after the Wimbledon final but he should enjoy every minute of this." [B]Murray plays the mixed doubles final with Laura Robson later on Sunday.[/B] The pair face Belarusian top seeds Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi knowing they are guaranteed at least silver. Team GB remain third in the London 2012 medal table, with Murray's triumph in just an hour and 56 minutes the 16th gold medal of a glorious Games for the host nation. He climbed into the stands to celebrate with his girlfriend, family and support team as Federer again missed out on the one accolade missing from his CV. Murray then mounted the podium with Federer and bronze medallist Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, who beat Serbia's Novak Djokovic 7-5 6-4 in an hour and 48 minutes earlier in the day. There were no obvious tears, but it was clear how much this meant to Murray as he sang along to parts of the national anthem and then draped himself in a union jack. Having suffered a shock first-round defeat by 77th-ranked Yen-Hsun Lu in Beijing four years ago, he will be delighted to have contributed this time round. Murray becomes the first Briton to claim an Olympic men's singles medal since Charles Dixon took silver at the 1920 event in Antwerp - and deservedly so. Victorious over Djokovic in the semi-finals, he troubled an error-strewn Federer from the outset and broke serve in game six before holding for 5-2 with two booming aces. Murray buried a backhand passing shot to wrap up the 37-minute first set but, given he also took the opener in the Wimbledon final, there remained a sense of caution around the stadium. That caution turned into belief when a forehand pass clipped a net cord to elude Federer in game two of the second set and he then saved six break points to hold for 3-0. Federer looked agitated and his fans dejected and a rare double fault let Murray strike again before the Scot swiftly served out to extend his advantage. The Scot's performance continued to improve as his opponent's faded and Federer's delivery was breached decisively in game five of the third set as Murray powered towards the finishing line, dropping just one point on serve as he closed out with an ace.[/quote] I understand there's a lot of things going great this Olympics, but I feel this is a monumental feat for GBR

Just a month after Federer beat him at Wimbledon [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyLm3BpW1mg[/media] "I'm getting closer"

He absolutely obliterated Federer.

Yeah seriously, snip

FEDERER JUST GOT FRIMPONGED HAHA #CLASSMATE

And he's already back on doing mixed doubles right now

Down with the giant headband

I feel good for Murray. He's been chasing this for a long time. Nice to see him succeed.

UK's doing well these olympics.

Lemme guess, NBC didn't cover it?

[QUOTE=mac338;37092167]UK's doing well these olympics.[/QUOTE] I'll be disappointed if Norway ends up being the only Scandinavian country without a gold medal :(

[QUOTE=Carne;37092179]I'll be disappointed if Norway ends up being the only Scandinavian country without a gold medal :([/QUOTE] Yeah, but on the bright side, we're a country of only 5 million people, and yet we have more winter olympic golds then any other country. That's impressive.

[QUOTE=Webby2020;37092174]Lemme guess, NBC didn't cover it?[/QUOTE] They did, and still are.

'Oan yersel' Andy. Shame they lost the doubles though. The Scots are really pulling their weight in these Olympics, we only make up 9% of the team but have over 50% of the medals.

He [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18906645]narrowly missed gold[/url] in the mixed doubles

Very narrowly. Put up a good fight though, after it was 9-6 in the tiebreaker. Got it back to 9-8, but eh.

Olympic gold is the only medal Federer doesn't have. Ouch.

Too bad. Roger was my Fav. you can guess why

[QUOTE=SwizzChees;37093147]Too bad. Roger was my Fav. you can guess why[/QUOTE] To me he has no personality whatsoever, he just seems to win then bugger off.

[QUOTE=Webby2020;37092174]Lemme guess, NBC didn't cover it?[/QUOTE] NBC covers alot of GB's events when America isn't competing

[QUOTE=demoguy08;37093040]Olympic gold is the only medal Federer doesn't have. Ouch.[/QUOTE] he has one in the doubles from Beijing