NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — David Rudisha’s coach says the Olympic 800-meter champion and world-record holder has pulled out of next month’s world championships because of a right knee injury.
Colm O’Connell tells The Associated Press that they waited as long as possible to see if Rudisha would recover after he missed six weeks of training and was treated in Germany for the problem.
O’Connell says Rudisha “has improved quite a lot but we didn’t want to do a crash course between now and the world championships, which may aggravate the injury.”
The coach said Tuesday they “finally” made the decision that Rudisha would not defend his 800 world title in Moscow. He says Rudisha first felt pain in his knee at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York in May.
