Howe out of Long jump
18.04.2009 World
Reigning European Long Jump champion Andrew Howe suffers from an injury on his left Achilles tendon.
His long jump season in jeopardy although he is still hopeful that he can compete in sprint events. „It is quite impossible to compete in the long jump. I will try sprint events. If everything is ok I will run a 400 metres race at the end of June and I will try to qualify for the World Championships in Berlin in the 200 metres, but my long jump season is over. I could try a 100 metres race at the end of the season. I saw the ultrasound scan on my tendon. If it tears, I risk a stop of two years“, he was quoted by La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Andrew Howe is now back to his training base in Vigna di Valle after a period of rehabilitation from the injury he picked during the Moscow IAAF Indoor meeting where he won with 8.02. He underwent a series of therapies at the training centre la Pinetina of the famous Milan football club Inter in Appiano Gentile. Asked about Sebastian Bayer‘s 8.71 Howe said: „It was inevitable that someone would have managed to emerge. He made a great jump and looked very easy. If I had competed in Torino, it could have been a different competition.
I would have liked to compete in Torino. I am happy with the great results achieved by the italian team, especially for Fabrizio Donato who really deserved his gold medal after so many injuries and sacrificies. I hope to see Claudio Licciardello reaching the final in Berlin with a sub-45 time in the 400 metres.”
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