NBA takımlarından Atlanta Hawks’ta forma giyen Tiago Splitter, dün akşam sosyal medya hesabından bir fotoğraf paylaşarak 2016 Rio Olimpiyat Elemeleri’ni kaçıracağını yazdı.
Geçirdiği önemli bir ameliyat sebebi ile sekiz ay kadar sahalardan uzak kalacağını üzüntüyle belirten Splitter, kendi ülkesi Breazilya’da düzenlenecek olan 2016 Rio Olimpiyat Elemeleri’ne de katılamayacağını açıkladı.
İşte Tiago Splitter’ın yaptığı açıklama:
Hello, my friends! Unfortunately, I will have surgery on my right hip and will be approximately 8 months out. I’ve been fighting since the beginning of this season with severe pain in the hip that made me play several times at my limit. I never resigned myself to be off the court for any reason. I always loved to play, either for my team or the Brazilian national team. But these pains increased and become increasingly unbearable. I did all the treatments and therapies available, however nothing solved the pain I felt, and it only increased with every single game. During this time, I had the Hawks medical team and phisios always helping me, but we had to make this difficult decision, that involves more than this season or the Olympics dream in my country, but it reaches my personal health and my career. No one feels more than myself! It was the hardest decision of my career and even more for someone like me who never had any injury to take me to the operating room. My surgery will be held in New York on February 25th. I want to thank all the messages of support I have received! All the best, Tiago Splitter
Tiago Splitter (@tgo_splitter) tarafından paylaşılan bir fotoğraf (17 Şub 2016, 11:16 PST
