- 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 the upcoming Olympics after rupturing his achilles tendon only two months before the Tokyo Games are due to start, his partner said on Thursday.
The 30-year-old from outside Atlanta, who trains full-time at the British Athletics’ national performance centre in Loughborough, was injured during the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, Austrian hurdler Beate Schrott said in an Instagram post.
