PADDY BARNES joins Kenneth Egan in tomorrow night’s quarter finals — just one fight away from an Olympic medal — following his impressive 14-8 victory over Jose Luis Meza (Ecuador) on Saturday.

John Joe Nevin bowed out of the Olympic Games today after being outpointed by Mongolian bantamweight Badar - Uugan Enkhbat in a last 16 bout at the Workers Indoor Arena in Beijing today.

Ireland's John Joe Nevin has beaten African champion, Abdelhalim Ourradi of Algeria, in his heat of the Bantamweight 54kg competition.

Darren Sutherland and Paddy Barnes both received byes into the last sixteen of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing at this morning's draw at the Asia Hotel in the Chinese capitol.