Conlan aims to right the Delhi wrongs

With his confidence boosted by a series of accolades from a glittering junior career, Michael Conlan arrived at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi four years ago convinced he was ready to claim senior gold.

Instead the then 17-year-old from Belfast was knocked out in his first fight by Australia’s Jason Moloney and had to sit on the sidelines for the rest of the competition watching five of his Northern Ireland team-mates reach the medal rostrum.

Four years on even more is expected of Conlan in the bantamweight division in Glasgow next month after a startling post-Delhi trajectory which saw him claim Olympic bronze in London and a European silver medal in Minsk last year.