Published on : 29/07/2021 – 07:25
American Sam Kendricks, two-time pole vault world champion (2017, 2019), was forced to forfeit the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19, announced Thursday, July 29, American Olympic Committee. Several Australian athletes have been placed in solitary confinement as contact cases of the pole vaulter whose defection leaves the way open to the Swedish world record holder Armand Duplantis, in search of a first Olympic title.
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