Athletics, Olympics 2024: Triple jumper Eldhose Paul withdraws from Paris race due to injury
The 27-year-old from Kerala had won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
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Triple jumper Eldhose Paul announced on Thursday that he has pulled out of the race to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games in July due to a heel bone fracture.
The 27-year-old from Kerala was set to compete at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Panchkula in a final attempt to earn qualification for the Olympics in Paris, but the injury has ended hopes of him making the cut for the quadrennial event in France.
“Unfortunately, I sustained an injury during the last competition I took part in, which occurred towards the end of the qualifying period,” Paul wrote in a post on his social media account.
“After returning to India and undergoing further evaluation, it’s been concluded that I have a fracture in the calcaneus [heel bone] that requires immediate attention.”
