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McColgan won metallic astatine the European Championships and golden astatine the Commonwealth Games successful Birmingham past year| Hosts: Budapest Dates: 19-27 August |
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Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan has pulled retired of the World Athletics Championships successful Budapest starting connected Saturday aft failing to retrieve from a genu injury.
The 32-year-old broke Paula Radcliffe's 21-year-old British record successful March but missed the London Marathon successful April.
"We tried everything to beryllium contention acceptable for this weekend, but unluckily I ran retired of time," Scot McColgan said.
"With the Olympics conscionable astir the corner, the stakes are excessively high."
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The World Championships tally until 27 August, portion the Paris Olympics commencement successful July 2024.
McColgan has not competed since April and said aft resuming grooming successful May that winning golden successful Hungary was a "pipe dream".
She has been grooming successful Switzerland with the Great Britain squad successful the anticipation of being acceptable for the Worlds.
McColgan, whose parent Liz won 10,000m satellite golden successful 1991, said connected Thursday she is "hopeful" of racing connected the roadworthy successful the autumn earlier taking a interruption to hole for 2024.
"We ever knew it was going to beryllium choky to marque it to the commencement line," she said connected Instagram.
"It's been a precise challenging (but inactive successful!) twelvemonth for me... however, america Scots are made from hard stuff!"
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BBC Sport Scotland's Richard Winton
Making it to the commencement enactment successful Budapest was ever going to beryllium a situation for McColgan. Indeed, astatine 1 signifier it seemed similar she would not adjacent beryllium named successful the archetypal squad for the worlds.
However, aft a spot of backmost and forth, it was agreed she would springiness it a close bully spell astatine the British squad campy successful Switzerland. The Scot has done that, but yet feels that not travelling to Hungary is the close happening to do, arsenic frustrating arsenic that mightiness be.
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