Jade Jones' bid for Olympic history is over after another early defeat in the taekwondo -57kg first round in Paris.

The 31-year-old Briton was bidding to become the first three-time Olympic champion in the sport's history.

She was beaten at the same stage in Tokyo three years ago - which she later described as the "biggest low" of her career.

On Thursday, Jones lost the first round of the best-of-three tie to Macedonia's Miljana Reljikj, narrowly won the second and drew the third.

That led to the number of registered hits being used as a tie-breaker, with Reljikj coming out on top.

In the men's 68kg competition, Britain's Tokyo silver-medallist Bradly Sinden was beaten in the semi-finals by Jordan's Zaid Kareem and will fight for bronze at 19:19 BST.

Jones was cleared to compete in Paris after being found to have committed a no-fault doping violation on confidential medical grounds.

The Briton was provisionally suspended by the UK Anti-Doping Agency (Ukad) after she failed to provide a urine sample to officials who arrived at her hotel in Manchester on 1 December 2023.

Ukad said it had been presented with confidential medical records that showed Jones bore "no fault or negligence for her refusal or failure to submit to her sample collection".

Jones, who tested negative later that day after providing a sample to a separate tester, says she made a "mistake" by not providing the sample at the first time of asking.

Sinden will face a winner of the taekwondo repechage bouts for the chance to add bronze to his Olympic silver from three years ago.

The 25-year-old saw off Croatia's Marko Golubic in the quarter-finals and won the first round against Kareem in the semi-final.

However, after losing a tight second round, he received two kicks to the head in the decider and slipped to a 10-2 defeat.

Sinden, a two-time world champion, was aiming to become the first British man to win Olympic gold in the sport but will have to settle with fighting for bronze.