After the premiere injury - Karsten Warholm can miss the World Athletics Championships

Olympic champion and world record holder Karsten Warholm has waited with the season debut 2022.

On Sunday, it was finally time, at the Diamond League competition in Rabat, Morocco.

Miss Diamond League in Stockholm

But the 400 meter hurdles race ended quickly, as he broke already after the first hurdles.

After a medical examination on Tuesday morning, it is clear that he has a small injury to the back of his right thigh.

- It is perhaps the most common sprinter injury.

I have seen it many times, says the Norwegian Olympics doctor Thomas Torgalsen to the newspaper VG.

Warholm has already withdrawn from next week's Diamond League competition Bislett Games.

The Diamond League competition at Stockholm Stadium on June 30 is also excluded.

And Torgalsen admits that it is not certain that he can be back to the World Cup in Eugene July 15-24.

- It is not 100 percent safe, no.

But it is a realistic goal, but all partners are aware that it may be that he is not back then, says Torgalsen.