Katie Taylor believes painful defeats will sharpen her focus in Rio

After suffering two losses inside the space of six weeks, Katie Taylor agrees with the suggestion bouncing back to claim gold in Rio would be her greatest achievement yet.

And while the post-mortem into her last defeat is yet to take place, she admits that will be a necessary if painful experience; something she appears to find more daunting than any real or exaggerated fears surrounding the Zika virus.

The Olympic champion was present at the launch of the official New Balance Olympic kit in Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre yesterday, standing out among her Ireland team-mates in a resplendent white tracksuit that would very much look at home on top of a podium on August 19.