Markus Rooth is not seen in the Japanese World Championships.
Olympic winner Markus Rooth is out of the World Cup. EPA / AOP
Last summer 10-match Olympic gold won Markus Rooth23, unable to participate in the World Athletics World Championships next month.
On Sunday, Rooth was injured in pole vault exercises with fatal consequences. The Norwegian jump failed badly, and he injured his knee and elbow after coming down the mattress on a flat.
There is a cut and a four -month recovery.
– I rarely have been as sad as a few last days. This is not very cool, tears fractured rooth quoth At a press conference on Monday, according to NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Company.
The man will be cut on Thursday. It sealed that Rooth will not be seen in Japan in September.
– Of course it hurts. I immediately understood that this is something so serious that I could forget the World Championships, he says of his reaction to the tests in the hospital.
Rooth’s Olympic gold in Paris was a big surprise. The man in the fjord became the second youngest Olympic winner in the history of the decade at 8,796.