GB's Cunningham to fight for taekwondo gold

Britain's Caden Cunningham will bid for Olympic taekwondo golden later connected Saturday - and Rebecca McGowan will conflict again for a chance astatine bronze.

Cunningham, competing astatine his first Olympics, stunned Rio 2016 champion Cheick Sallah Cisse successful nan men's +80kg semi-finals.

The brace were tied astatine 1-1 going into nan last information of nan best-of-three lucifer - and, arsenic nan timepiece ticked down, nan people successful nan decider was level astatine 5-5.

But Cunningham, 21, was judged to person had much shots and was declared nan winner.

Cunningham will look Iran's Arian Salimi successful nan last astatine 20:18 BST, knowing he is guaranteed astatine slightest a metallic badge successful Paris.

Asked really he would hole for nan final, Cunningham said: "Chill, eat a banana, drink, grin and lukewarm up.

"I scheme to travel retired victorious, truthful happy days."

Bianca Cook, a two-time Olympic bronze medallist for GB, praised Cunningham's maturity during nan fight.

"That lucifer was going to beryllium truthful tight, down nan wire, but Caden kept his cool," she said connected BBC TV.

"They're some specified beardown characters. They knew what they needed to do to get nan separator complete each different and Caden was fantastic."

McGowan was outclassed 2-0 successful nan quarter-finals of nan women's +67kg arena by Svetlana Osipova of Uzbekistan.

However, Osipova went connected to scope nan final, meaning McGowan will title nan repechage - a conflict which decides who will beforehand to nan bronze badge matches.

McGowan, from Dumbarton, will now request to recompose herself and hit Astan Bathily of Ivory Coast to beryllium successful pinch a changeable astatine a medal.

Britain person won a taekwondo badge astatine each Games since Athens successful 2004, but they initially struggled successful Paris.

Gold badge favourite Bradly Sinden had to retreat injured earlier his men's -68kg bronze badge match, having taken metallic successful Tokyo 3 years ago.

That came aft two-time golden medallist Jade Jones suffered an early conclusion - conscionable arsenic she did successful Tokyo - successful nan women's -57kg.