Olympic Gold Medalist Ous Mellouli Out of World Champs With Injury

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Ous Mellouli, a four-time Olympian for Tunisia, has pulled out of this summer’s World Championships in Budapest after suffering an undisclosed injury.

Due to recent injury in training, I'm forced to withdraw my participation to World Championships in Budapest

— Oussama Mellouli (@MellouliOussama) July 12, 2017

Mellouli won gold in the men’s 1500 free at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and added a bronze four years later in London. But his biggest accomplishment of the 2012 Games came in open water, where he won gold in the 10k.

Last summer in Rio, Mellouli was 21st in the 1500 and then came in 12th in a tight finish in the 10k.

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