Athletics: Clay out of world championships

DAEGU: Olympic decathlon champion Bryan Clay has withdrawn from the world athletics championships with a knee injury.

“I feel that I would be at less than my best,” he said. “I want to win medals every time I compete and based on the way my knee has been, I feel that I wouldn’t be at top form.”

Clay fell in the decathlon 110 metres at the US world trials in June and withdrew from the competition. He later developed tendonitis in his right knee.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 22^nd,  2011.