Two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones crashes OUT of her opening taekwondo round of 16 tie - three years on from Team GB star's first-round defeat in Tokyo

Team GB's Jade Jones failed to advancement done nan information of 16 successful nan women's taekwondo 57kg event, aft gearing up to situation for an unprecedented 3rd golden pursuing wins astatine nan London and Rio Olympics. 

The 31-year-old had her bosom surgery by North Macedonia's Miljana Reljikj successful a cagey affair, her force taking nan first information 7-6 pinch a well-timed caput changeable moments earlier time. 

But Jones clawed her measurement backmost successful nan 2nd round, carrying it 5-4 by nan finest of margins. 

The Croatia-based British jock held patient successful nan scrappy 3rd and deciding round, but was ultimated devasted successful Paris 3 years connected from being knocked retired successful nan opening information successful Tokyo - aft a 1-1 decorativeness saw nan referee grant Reljikj nan victory. 

Jones' inclusion successful Britain's Olympic squad had raised eyebrows successful immoderate quarters aft she was provisionally suspended by nan UK Anti-Doping Agency earlier this twelvemonth aft refusing to supply a urine sample to supplier testers successful December 2023.

Jones, who tested antagonistic later that day, escaped further reward following an investigation which recovered she ‘bore nary responsibility aliases negligence for her refusal to taxable to sample collection’. 

UKAD said they were satisfied to clear nan 31-year-old connected ‘very exceptional circumstances’, based connected confidential aesculapian records, pinch her lawyer arguing she suffered a ‘loss of cognitive capacity’ erstwhile failing to comply pinch nan request. 

Jones could yet return to title via nan repechage to triumph bronze should Reljikj make nan final, but will look a nail-biting wait.