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Five-time Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica will miss the chance to compete in the Paris Games due to injury. The sprinter said on Instagram that she will miss the Olympic Games in Paris after sustaining a “small tear on my Achilles tendon” at the New York Grand Prix in early June. “It’s a long road but I am willing to start over and keep working and to make full recovery and resume my track career,” Thompson-Herah said. “I am hurt and devastated to be missing the Olympic this year but at the end of the day it’s sports and my health comes first.” Thompson-Herah’s agency, …

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