Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina will miss an Olympics for the first time since the 1988 Seoul Games after sustaining an injury in training, ruling the 48-year-old out of the Asian Championships, her last qualifying opportunity for the Paris Games.
"I will not be able to take part and I am very upset as I have been preparing for this competition for a long time," was posted on Chusovitina’s social media.
Chusovitina's chances of qualifying for a gymnastics record-extending ninth Olympics in Paris would have been slim had she been able to compete on Friday in Tashkent, the capital of her home country of Uzbekistan.