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Paris 2024: Ireland’s Jack Woolley misses out on quarter-final spot

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Ireland’s Jack Woolley missed out on a quarter-final spot in the men’s 58kg Taekwondo at the Olympic Games in Paris after defeat by Azerbaijan’s Gashim Magomedov.

Magomedov took a 2-0 victory over Woolley in a best-of-three-rounds bout at the Grand Palais, scoring 4-7 in round 1 and 7-12 in round two.

Woolley, 25, who is now a two-time Olympian, must wait to see how far his opponent Magomedov progresses to earn a potential spot in the repechage and a pathway to a bronze medal match.

Magomedov will face Spain’s Adrian Vincente Yunta at 14:32 BST.

In 2021, Tallaght man Woolley made history becoming Ireland’s first ever Taekwondo Olympian at the Tokyo Games but finished 11th overall after a close first-round encounter with Lucas Gomez of Argentina.

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