Reigning Olympic champion Carolina Marin ruled out of Tokyo Games due to torn ACL, set to undergo surgery
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Reigning Olympic champion Carolina Marin is set to miss the Tokyo Olympics. She has a torn ACL and will be undergoing a knee surgery later this week which will leave her on the sidelines for the Games. The 27-year-old tweeted the news of the development on Tuesday after having suffered an injury during training last week.
“I confirm that I have torn the ACL and both meniscus on my left knee. I will undergo surgery this week and start my recovery…The preparation during the last two months had become very difficult for reasons beyond the team’s control, but we were excited and knew that I would be on (sic) the best shape for the Olympics. It won’t be possible,” Marin said in her statement.
Carolina Marin’s absence boosts PV Sindhu’s medal hopes
With Marin ruled out of the Tokyo Olympics, ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu‘s chances of winning a medal at the gala event of sports has increased by folds. Sindhu trails the Spaniard 5-9 in their head-to-head record. The last time they played each other at the Swiss Open final earlier this year, Sindhu was comprehensively defeated in just 35 minutes.
This is not the first time Marin had suffered an injury of such extent. She had suffered an ACL rupture in her right knee during the final of the 2019 Indonesian Masters against Saina Nehwal. That injury, too, had required surgery and a layoff of several months which her to miss the 2019 World Championships.
Marin was in top form heading into the Tokyo Olympics. Returning from injury, she had won the Thailand Open and Toyota Thailand Open in January followed the Swiss Open in March as she managed a silver medal at the 2021 HSBC BWF World Tour finals. She had also won her fifth European Championships title in Kiev in May.
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