Olympic dream over for gutsy David Oliver Joyce

Three down, five to go. Ireland lost another of its boxers last night as lightweight David Oliver Joyce was given a masterclass in the noble art by world number two Albert Selimov and a third when Irish Olympic chiefs confirmed Michael O’Reilly will not fight in Rio.

Joyce went out with his gloves on but O’Reilly never got near the Rio ring after testing positive for a banned drug contained in a supplement he took before he left Dublin.

He has been isolated from the rest of the team since Friday but will now go home in disgrace, the first Irish boxer ever sent home from an Olympics.