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Melissa Woods

Injured Aussie aerials champion ruled out of Olympics

A knee injury has forced Australia's Laura Peel to withdraw from the Winter Olympics in Italy. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

A heart-broken Laura Peel has withdrawn from the Olympics, with Australia's two-time aerials world champion unable to recover from a serious knee injury.

Peel ruptured her ACL at a  pre-Games training camp in Airolo, Switzerland, in early February but refused to give up hope of winning her first medal at her fourth Olympics. 

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