Injury setback for thrower
The world women’s javelin champion, Fatima Whitbread, is facing a season on the sidelines after being struck down by injury yet again. The Olympic silver medallist from Britain is in hospital awaiting an operation to repair the muscle she tore in her right shoulder at her opening meeting of the season.
The latest in a two-year
catalogue of injuries means she will almost certainly miss the European and World Cup events this autumn.
"It’s another blow, but I hope to be back in action at the season’s end and will definitely be fully fit for the Commonwealth Games in Auckland at the start of next year,” Whitbread, aged 27, said this
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