Posted at 1:33 a.m., Saturday, September 1, 2007
Track and field: U.S. decathlete Pappas also withdraws
Advertiser Staff
OSAKA, Japan — Former world decathlon champion Tom Pappas withdrew from the competition after his first event today because of a foot injury.He joined fellow American and defending champion Bryan Clay on the sidelines. Clay withdrew when he pulled a quadriceps muscle in the high jump, the fourth of the 10 events, on Friday.
Pappas won his fifth U.S. championship this year in a comeback from a series of injuries that had plagued him since he won the world title in 2003. He was in sixth place after the 110-meter hurdles, the sixth event of the decathlon and the first of the second day.
