He cut his effort after only 70 meters. Kevin Mayer abandoned the decathlon in the first event, the 100m, at the European Athletics Championships taking place in Munich (Germany). The Frenchman, 30, explained a few moments later to have “stopped before injury“. The sportsman shone three weeks ago in Eugene (United States) by being crowned world champion in the decathlon.
Double Olympic vice-champion, the athlete had to face an unprecedented sequence: two decathlons in three weeks. He had warned that he would “wouldn’t take the risk“at the slightest physical alert.