Long jumper M. Sreeshankar, the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games silver medallist, has injured his knee and will now miss this July’s Paris Olympics.
“He injured his left knee, the take-off knee, while training at Palakkad on Tuesday evening. There was no inkling that something like this would happen, it happened during a short pop-up jump. He sat down on the pit immediately,” S. Murali, Sreeshankar’s father who is also his coach, told The Hindu on Thursday.
“He has been taken to the Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai...they say he needs surgery and it could take about one and half years to regain his old form.”
