Weight woes finally catch up with Paddy Barnes at Rio Olympics

Not only is Paddy Barnes’s Olympic journey at an end but so is his career as a light-flyweight boxer.

He has fought for the last time in the Games and the last time in the weight division.

One is connected with the other. Barnes blamed his shock defeat yesterday in his first bout of the 49kg category at his third Olympic Games on the draining effect on his body of a desperate struggle to keep within the limit for the lightest of the Olympic divisions.