Ireland’s Evans advances to last 16 of Olympic badminton and look what it means to him

He was made to sweat a little by the heavily-supported local man but Scott Evans dug deep once more to continue his history-making run and make the last 16 of the badminton in Rio, writes Daragh Ó Conchúir.

And just as he did after the tremendous defeat of his group’s top seed Marc Zweibler on Friday, Evans tore off his short in exhilaration.