The top 2 Floor competitors from the last Olympics are both out due to training injuries in Germany.
Romanian superstar fractures back in training
September 2, 2007 – Romanian superstar Marian Dragulescu, the defending world champion on both vault and floor exercise, will not compete in Stuttgart after fracturing his vertebra in training on Saturday.
Adrian Stoica of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation told IG that during Saturday’s practice, Dragulescu landed normally during training and felt pain.
“Apparently the muscles pulled bone away from one of the vertebra,” Stoica said.
Dragulescu was treated for pain on Saturday night, but by Sunday evening was unable to move. X-rays revealed a cracked lumbar vertebra.
Training mishap knocks Kyle Shewfelt out of World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic champion Kyle Shewfelt of Calgary has been knocked out of the upcoming artistic gymnastics world championships after sustaining injuries to both knees during a training session Monday in the host city of Stuttgart, Germany.
Shewfelt, expected to lead the Canadian men’s team to an Olympic berth at the competition next week, sustained small fractures to both knees after a hard landing while practising his floor routine.
Surgery will not be required, but the gold medal winner in the men’s floor event at the 2004 Olympics in Athens is expected to be out of action for six to eight weeks during his recovery, says Gymnastics Canada president and CEO Jean-Paul Caron of Ottawa.
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