GB hockey men wait for medal goes on after shootout loss

Great Britain's men's wait for a first Olympic medal since 1988 continues after they were beaten 4-2 in a tense shootout by India in Paris.

GB had already come from behind through Lee Morton and were the dominant side in the final quarter as they looked for a winner against 10-player India.

However, with the score level at 1-1 after a chaotic match, Britain were forced to go into a best-of-five shootout against India.

A miss from Conor Williamson on the third effort gave India the advantage and, after Phil Roper's miss, Kumar Pal slotted home to spark jubilant scenes among the India fans at Yves-du-Manoir Stadium.

Britain's men slumped to the floor, with some in tears, as they lost at the quarter-final stage of an Olympics for the second time in a row.

"I am absolutely devastated for those GB men," Kate Richardson-Walsh, gold medallist in Rio in 2016, said on BBC TV.

"This team is absolutely capable of being Olympic medallists, I have no doubt about that, but we are going to have to wait.

"Four years seems a long way away now."