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Sprinter Christophe Lemaitre, injured on Saturday at the Diamond League in Paris, suffers from a muscle tear and will be absent for the French Championships in Albi (6-8 July) and Europe in Berlin (7 to 12 August), announced Monday evening the French athletics federation.
"The doctor of the France team who examined him after his race diagnosed a tear-type muscle injury of his right hamstring A diagnosis that has been confirmed by the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) pbaded on Monday.The sprinter of the AS Aix-les-Bains is therefore forfeited for the big summer meeting "of the European championships, announcement the FFA in a statement
Carraz was "rather pessimistic"
A little earlier on Monday, another chance for a French podium in Berlin, Yohann Diniz, triple European champion of the 50 km walk, also declared package for the European Championships, due to a fracture of tigue at the pelvis level. "For the French championships, it's over, it will not be there," had announced Monday early in the evening coach Christophe Lemaitre, Pierre Carraz.
For the European championships, even if he recognized that the chances of participation of the Frenchman were very slim, Pierre Carraz did not close the door completely. "We can not say yet … (…) There is a hematoma, so we have to wait two or three days, and a new examination, but I would be rather pessimistic, even if you never know …", The coach added that the federation would announce his decision later.
Christophe Lemaitre, four-time European champion, besides bronze medalist of the 2016 Olympics on 200m and third of the world championship 2011 on 200m, was injured Saturday in the right thigh during the 100m B meeting in Paris. He felt a great deal of pain after 70-80m of racing before collapsing once the finish line was reached by limping. He was evacuated on a stretcher.
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