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Ulm (AP) - Decathlete Arthur Abele has to tick off the Olympic Games in Tokyo due to a shoulder injury.
«My shoulder has been sore for a long time and normal training has been out of the question for the past few weeks.
After an MRI, we were certain ... She had to be operated, ”said the 34-year-old European champion from 2018 on the weekend via Instagram.
"For me that means NO OLYMPICS in Tokyo 2021 and the dream of a medal will burst."
The man from Ulm had to struggle with serious injuries again and again in his career, but celebrated a great success as a gold medalist with 8,431 points at the home European championships in Berlin in 2018.
He was absent from the World Cup in Doha / Qatar the following year due to a foot injury.
There, at the age of 21, Niklas Kaul from Mainz became the youngest decathlon world champion in athletics history.
Abele should have qualified for Tokyo.
It would have been his third summer games after 2008 and 2016.
"I am mega disappointed and broken ... because my dream will remain a dream," he wrote.
But he doesn't want to end his career: "Now it's time to take a deep breath, let it sink in and take a run for the EM-Munich 22."
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Abele portrait on Leichtathletik.de
Tweet from Abele