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China's Li Ya to miss world championships
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-24 15:27
BEIJING - Chinese world champion and Olympic hopeful Li Ya will miss
September's world championships in Germany because of a dislocated elbow,
the Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) has said.
Li Ya, who won a team gold medal at last year's world championships in
Aarhus, injured her elbow in training last week and will be out for four
to six weeks, China team manager Zhang Peiwen was quoted as saying in
local media on Tuesday.
The 19-year-old, best known for a unique and highly difficult uneven bar
routine she unveiled last year, should still have a chance of making the
team for next year's Olympics in Beijing.
"During the preparation for Olympics, we will never give up on any
gymnast," head coach Huang Yubin said. "Of course, we won't give up on Li
Xiaopeng either."
Sydney Olympic men's parallel bars champion Li Xiaopeng is also a doubt
for the championships in Stuttgart because of a toe fracture.
China will announce its squad for the September 1-9 world championships -
the last before the Beijing Olympics - on August 9.
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