Dutch Olympian Madiea Ghafoor has been jailed for eight and a half years for drug smuggling and trafficking.

Ghafoor, 27, competed at the Rio Olympics in 2016 in the 4x400m relay.

She was stopped at a routine border check in Germany in June, when she was found to have £2m worth of drugs in the boot of her car.

Ghafoo appeared at Kleve District Court on Monday and told the court she thought she was carrying doping materials.

She was found to have 50kg of ecstasy tablets, 2kg of crystal meth and almost €11,950 (£10,317) in cash.