CHIBA, Japan: Jade Jones, Britain's twice Olympic taekwando champion, said the absence of her family at the scaled-down Tokyo Games contributed to her shock first-round defeat on Sunday .
"And not having my family there to kind of push me out of that fear zone really did affect me and I'm just gutted that I couldn't do more." "I call them 'Team Crazy' - the ones that have been to every Olympics," she said, adding they had all gathered at her aunt's garden back home to watch her compete.
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