Ireland’s hopes of a rugby sevens medal at the Paris Olympics are over after a 40-7 defeat to Australia in the quarter-finals.
Allan Temple-Jones’ side had been beaten just 19-14 by the same opposition in a pool stage game earlier in the day, but were undone come the knock-outs by a brilliant Maddison Levi.
The 22-year-old scored her side’s first three tries of the evening, taking her personal tally at these Olympics to 11, with Faith Nathan, Isabella Nasser and Bienne Terita also crossing for the victors.
Ireland, whose consolation score came through Stacey Flood, will now go into the 5th-8th place play-off bracket that begins at 2pm BST on Tuesday.