PARIS — The one-man Canadian tennis team walked off the court at Roland Garros late Saturday without the second Olympic medal he so desired and surely deserved.

There should be another prize of some kind waiting for Felix Auger-Aliassime. Something to wear around his neck. Something to show off. He was that deserving. He was that much the proud Olympian here.

He was as great a Canadian in the past eight days as there has been at these Summer Games.

Auger-Aliassime played singles, doubles, mixed doubles — more than 20 hours of tennis in 11 matches over seven days — and succumbed in three sets in the bronze-medal match, being defeated by both Italian Lorenzo Muzetti and by exhaustion, both physical and mental.

On another giant day of Canadian accomplishment here, with swimmer Summer McI

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