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Double Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones has spoke of her devastation after exiting the Paris Games in the first round of women's -57kg taekwondo.

Jones was beaten by North Macedonia's Miljana Reljikj in a third round tie-breaker .

The 31-year-old from Flint had set her sights on becoming the first three-time Olympic champion in the sport's history.

"I’m absolutely devastated," she told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport Wales after the bout.

"I clawed my way back to have this chance to be at my fourth Olympics, but it always comes down to the day and I didn’t have the balls and courage that it took today.

"I’m really proud of myself for having the courage to try and do something that no one has done and it’s tough, it’s mentally tough, that’s why no one has done it before.

"The more you win, the harder it gets, the more expectation and pressure. When you’re a kid you’ve got nothing to lose and you just fight.

"I’m gutted for me, my coach, my family that I didn’t show what I’ve worked so hard for, didn’t show what I was capable of in my body and mind, but it’s sport and it’s life, I couldn’t do it."

Jones' Olympic build-up had been overshadowed by the controversy of a missed drugs tests, but she was later cleared by the UK Anti-Doping Agency.

"The preparation was tough, but I was really grateful they looked into it the way they did," she added.

"The drug test came on dehydration day, I was losing the weight and kind of not in the right frame of mind.

"I got confused with it all, so I’m just so lucky that they looked into it and saw nothing was wrong and it all got sorted. It was stressful."

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Great Britain's Joe Choong says he is "sorry" after a disappointing start to the defence of his Olympics modern pentathlon title.

The 29-year-old won gold in Tokyo and there were hopes he could repeat that feat again in Paris.

But he now looks to be out of contention after finishing 29th out of 36 in the fencing ranking round.

"I’m really disappointed with that. I came here with high hopes," Choong told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport.

"I've had a tough year with some injuries but thought I was in good physical condition, but I really struggled out there."

The top three positions are occupied by Ukraine's Oleksandr Tovkai, Egypt's Ahmed Elgendy and Pavels Svecovs of Latvia.

Choong has previously spoken of his disappointment in girlfriend, and fellow pentathlete, Olivia Green not being selected for the Games and feels this has had an impact on his performance.

"I think one of the problems is there's not been any clarity on that decision-making process. We've not been able to have any sort of reasonable explanation," he added.

"It's really hard to compete well, especially when things start to go badly, and you'’re not generally happy with the set-up.

"I'm just so gutted. I felt a lot of pressure to do it for Liv, for myself, it's felt like a bit of an uphill battle and I'm just really disappointed.

"I'm so sorry for everyone back home - I really hoped I could go and win another medal. I definitely have it in me, but I've just not done it today."

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British duo John Gimson and Anna Burnet's hopes of claiming a medal in the mixed multihull event came to a crushing end when they were disqualified in the final race.

Gimson and Burnet - Olympic silver medallists in Tokyo - were third heading into the double-points medal race.

However, they were judged to have crossed the line before the starting horn sounded and forced to retire while their competitors continued.

The couple, who are planning to get married after the Games, received the maximum 22 points which saw them move down to fourth in the overall standings.

"We made one mistake and it's cost us an Olympic medal so you can imagine we're pretty broken," Gimson said.

Burnet added: "In that moment it's devastating, it's a bad dream but we can be proud of what we have done.

"There's no-one I'd rather be here with. We're so lucky we get to do this together. The highs and lows, we're biding it together."

Italy's Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti, who led going into the medal race, crossed the finish line in second to retain their Olympic title.

Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco of Argentina took silver, while New Zealand's Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson won bronze.

Earlier on Thursday, Austria's Vadlau and Lukas Maehr were crowned Olympic champions in the mixed dinghy event.

Japan's Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka stayed near the front of the pack throughout in the double-points finale to secure silver, while Anton Dahlberg and Lovisa Karlsson of Sweden picked up bronze.