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.
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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.