Degale warning after making final

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Degale scored a masterful 10-3 victory over Ireland's Darren Sutherland to advance to the gold medal match and was quick to pay tribute to beleaguered head coach Terry Edwards.

Edwards' position is in doubt with the Amateur Boxing Association, who chose the eve of the Olympic semi-finals to announce welterweight Billy Joe Saunders had been suspended pending a disciplinary hearing. Asked if he would stay amateur if Edwards was relieved of his duties, Degale said: "I don't think the majority of them would. I would not."

He added: "Terry doesn't get the respect he deserves. We've all got respect for him and he's like a second dad to me. He's fantastic and all the rubbish he gets is not fair.

"Terry sat us down and explained it all to us and it's a load of rubbish to be honest. All we're here for is to win gold medals. Everything is fine and it will be sorted out when we get back."

Degale's classy performance against a rugged opponent who had beaten the Londoner in four of their previous five meetings could not have come at a better time for Edwards.

Despite qualifying eight boxers for the Games the 65-year-old has received little or no support from boxing chiefs and expressed his disgust at the timing of the ABA's statement on Thursday.

Edwards said: "This has been coming for a long time and my skin is getting thicker and thicker. I came here to do a job and they (the ABA) obviously came here to do some sort of other job.

"I don't know what their agenda is but I know what my agenda is, and that's to get guys through to the final. I just find the timing of it all unbelievable. If there are grievances they should be dealt with but at the right time."