Christian Taylor, Olympic triple jump champion and Tokyo favorite, ruptures achilles
by Bryan Armen Graham from on (#5J2YG)
- American star suffers injury at Ostrava meet ahead of Olympics
- Taylor, 30, captured Olympic triple jump gold in 2012 and 2016
Christian Taylor, the two-time Olympic and four-time triple jump world champion and one of American track and field's biggest stars, will miss this summer's Olympics after rupturing his achilles tendon only two months before the Tokyo Games are due to start, his partner said on Thursday.
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