SEOUL: Olympic vault champion Yang Hak-seon, South Korea's first gold decoration victor in acrobatic, watches set to pass up a major opportunity for the opportunity to guard his title at Rio de Janeiro Games in the wake of agony an Achilles damage.
Yang, likewise vault title holder in 2011 and 2013, endured the harm amid floor hone at the Taeneung National Training Center in Seoul on Tuesday and had surgery the next day.
"The recovery is required to take three to four months," Han Chung-sik, a Korea Gymnastic Association official, told the Yonhap news organization. "Regardless of the possibility that Yang recuperates before the Olympics, he won't have had enough preparing to contend. "He might show abilities noticeable all around, however it will be troublesome for him to perform at the Olympics in the event that he can't arrive well."
The 23-year-old Yang, who had been rehearsing for the first round of the national trials one month from now, took off to the highest point of the world in the vault on the back of his mark triple-winding front somersault, which is named after him.
It was the effective execution of this move, which conveyed the most abnormal amount of trouble coefficient, that set him on his way to the gold award as a young person at the London Olympics.
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