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Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo has withdrawn from the upcoming German athletics championships in the wake of a coronavirus infection, just one month before the start of the Paris Games. “Malaika contracted the coronavirus directly after the European championships in Rome. She has since resumed training, but the championships in Braunschweig are still too early for her,” Germany team coach Ulli Knapp said on Wednesday. Mihambo won Germany’s only gold medal at the Euros earlier this month with a world leading 7.22 metres. Along with decathlete Leo Neugebauer she is Germany’s biggest …

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