Reigning world 100m champion Yohan Blake has withdrawn from August's
World Athletics Championships in Moscow with a hamstring injury.
The 23-year-old Jamaican pulled out of his country's national
championships last month having been troubled by the injury since April.
Blake won the 2011 title in Daegu, when compatriot Usain Bolt false-started.
Compatriot Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay have withdrawn from the event after positive
dope tests.
Well the athletics, particularly the 100m, has certainly
taken some huge hits to its reputation in the last few days, you had both
Powell and Gay two of the fastest men in history testing positive and
withdrawing from the World Championships, and now the defending champion, who
also failed a drugs test early in his career, has pulled out due to injury.
I bet when it was confirmed that Moscow would host
the worlds that the Russians wouldn’t have expected to be looking at a situation
where three of the biggest names in the showpiece event wouldn’t be there.
But on the bright side Bolt will still be there,
fingers crossed, and all these withdrawals could well mean that James Dasalou,
who nobody have ever heard of ever before the British trials this weekend,
could not only make the final but also win a medal, particularly if he runs
close to the 9.91 he ran on Saturday.
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