France's 2017 800m champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse says he's not been able to get healthy after having surgery on his thigh last year.
"I've tried to get back in recent months ... but quickly felt pain when I accelerated a little. After the operation, my hamstrings should have been better, it gave me a boost, hope and desire but this recurrence has broken the momentum. I no longer enjoy athletics. There is something unhealthy in this tendon, it's no longer there. The days go by, the Games are coming and at this rate, I will never be there. ...I no longer went out, I no longer played sports, I must not have been good to look at. I bottled things up a lot. At first I did not dare to tell my loved ones so as not to hurt them. My mother's dream was for me to go to the Games in Paris. The end of my career is still hard to admit."