Oh Brother: Luke Not Daunted Following Jade

Luke Jones makes his GB Taekwondo debut at the Austrian Open on Sunday insisting he’s under no pressure to match the achievements of his big sister.

Jones, the teenage brother of double Olympic Games gold medallist Jade, is part of a youthful squad competing in Innsbruck.

All but two, Josh Calland and Rachelle Booth, only joined the GB set-up in Manchester as part of the Fighting Chance talent ID initiative earlier this year.

“It’s my first international competition so there is a bit of pressure,” admits 18-year-old Jones junior from Flint

“It’s the biggest one I have done and I want to see where I am against the rest of the world.

“Some people would take it as extra pressure because Jade has been so successful. But I don’t take it like that.

“I am proud of what she has done but this is what I can do in the sport and my aim is to hopefully do as good as Jade.

“I want to enjoy it as well. I don’t want to be a bag of nerves, training too hard thinking I have got to catch upto Jade.

“On fight day I am sure I will be a bag of nerves but once I step on the mat they will disappear.”