Cuban triple jumper Pichardo will not compete in Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug 12 (acn) The Cuban delegation participating in the 31st Olympic Games made a press release announcing that triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo will not compete in the Games.

It was considered essential to avoid him the rigors of competition in order to prevent possible larger damage.
The Caribbean delegation reports that the most recent medical examinations undergone by Pichardo provide elements that determine his nonintervention in the Olympics.
Dr. Pablo Castillo, deputy director of the Institute of Sports Medicine in Cuba, explained that Pichardo insisted on his willingness to compete, aware of the prevailing interest of Cuban fans, but it prevailed the traditional priority given by the Cuban sports movement to health of its protagonists.
Castillo added that it was also was formalized the discharge from the Cuban delegation of Dayron Robles, Beijing 2008 110 meter hurdles monarch, who was not fully recovered from his injured right calf.