Shock in Rio as Katie Taylor beaten in quarter-finals

Katie Taylor is out of the Olympics after falling to a split-decision loss to World Championship bronze-medallist Mira Potkonen of Finland at Riocentro.

Taylor had already lost her world title and suffered a defeat in an Olympic qualifier before that this year but hopes were high that she would overcome the Finnish fighter she had never lost to previously to secure a first medal for Ireland’s increasingly beleaguered boxing team.