Five-time Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica will miss the chance to compete in the Paris Games due to injury.
The sprinter said on Instagram that she will miss the Olympic Games in Paris after sustaining a "small tear on my Achilles tendon" at the New York Grand Prix in early June.
"It's a long road but I am willing to start over and keep working and to make full recovery and resume my track career," Thompson-Herah said. "I am hurt and devastated to be missing the Olympic this year but at the end of the day it's sports and my health comes first."
Thompson-Herah's agency, Andi Sports Management, said in a statement that the track star withdrew from the Jamaica National Championships "and will be unable to defend her sprint titles" in Paris.
At the last Olympic Games in Tokyo, Thompson-Herah became the first woman to claim back-to-back Olympic sprint doubles.
She then helped Jamaica win the 4x100 metres relay to add to her 100m and 200m double, for a fifth Olympic gold across the Tokyo and Rio Olympics.