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World silver medalist Patrick Chan out of Rostelecom Cup
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Patrick Chan
The injuries keep on coming early on during this Olympic season. Last week, both Sasha Cohen and Kimmie Meissner announced their withdrawals from this week's Trophee Eric Bompard, the first Grand Prix series competition of the season. Today, one of the Olympic medal favorites, two-time Canadian champion Patrick Chan scratched from next week's Rostelecom Cup in Russia due to a tear in his left calf muscle.
In a conference call this morning, Chan said that his injury may have partially been the result of antibiotics that he was taking for the flu last month. The antibiotics and the effects of his illness may have caused a loss of muscle mass, which made him more susceptible to injury.
"I was so hard-headed that I thought I could do certain jumps that I shouldn't have and I pushed my body when I should have just waited for it to heal," he said. He is still able to train with the injury, but his injury effects a number of his jumps, especially the axel, which relies on a push-off from his left leg. It also effects his takeoff for the quadruple toe, a new jump in his repertoire this season.
Chan hopes to defend his title at Skate Canada near the end of November, the final competition in the Grand Prix series before the final. But because of his withdrawal next week, he will not qualify for the Grand Prix final this season.
Six-time Finnish national champion Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari will be Chan's replacement at the Rostelecom Cup.
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