Welsh double Taekwondo champion Jade Jones ready to compete at Paris 2024 following her escape from doping ban

Local TV Sport

As Paris 2024 is fast approaching, we’re looking at Wales’ Jade Jones, the double Olympic taekwondo champion, who after facing a case from the UK doping agency, has been given the go ahead to compete this summer as she looks for another gold medal.

Transcript

00:00British double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones has been cleared to compete at

00:06the 2024 Games after it was decided she will not face any sanctions over a doping violation.

00:14Jones, a gold medallist at London 2012 and Rio 2016, was provisionally suspended by the

00:21UK Anti-Doping Agency after she failed to provide a urine sample to officials, who arrived

00:27at her hotel in Manchester on 1st December 2023.

00:32Wales' Jones won Olympic gold at London 2012, aged 19. She successfully defended her title

00:39in Rio four years later, but failed to make it three in a row in Tokyo in 2021 when she

00:46lost in the last 16 to Kimia Alazadeh.

00:50Jones has been selected in a four-person Great Britain taekwondo team for the Paris Games

00:56in July.

Category

Transcript

Recommended