It emerged yesterday afternoon that Michael O’Reilly is being sent home, after he admitted in a statement released to RTÉ that he unintentionally took a supplement which may have been contaminated. His breaking of his silence comes after much uncertainty and adds another dark chapter to the Irish Olympic… Another day and the shadow cast by Irish boxing looms ever larger over these Olympics. He is on his way home, I feel for his family — and as far as I know he has dropped his appealThe Portlaoise fighter said he’d disclosed at the time of the test the fact he took the supplement, and that he was later notified on August 4 that the test had shown up as a positive.

Source: The Times August 09, 2016 23:26 UTC