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Lavillenie fractures thumb

Former Olympic pole vault gold medalist and ex-world record holder Renaud Lavillenie will undergo surgery on a fractured thumb and miss six weeks training after an accident in his back garden. The London Olympic champion posted a smiling photo of himself on Twitter with a splint on his thumb and his back garden pole vault apparatus in the background. 鈥淔ollowing a broken pole in the garden this weekend, I had tests that revealed a broken thumb requiring surgery that will take place tomorrow,鈥 wrote the Frenchman. 鈥淪ix weeks out, I鈥檒l be back in action at the end of August.鈥


 

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