Flame look to tomorrow as Wellings forced to withdraw

In unfortunate news for the Australian Flame, green and gold hopeful Eloise Wellings (NSW) has been forced to withdraw as a result of injury from the women's 10,000m final on day one of the IAAF world championships.

The Australian title holder in the event, Wellings was set to make her world championships debut here in Daegu (KOR) before injury forced the 28-year-old to remain on the sideline.

“Eloise has an inflamed nerve in the middle of her foot that hasn’t settled with treatment and we are therefore withdrawing her,” Adam Castricum, Australian Flame Team Doctor, said.

Australia’s attention now shifts to dual Olympic medallist Jared Tallent (Vic) and Australian championship medallist Adam Rutter (NSW) set to compete in the men’s 20km walk final tomorrow morning.

Reigning world champion Dani Samuels (NSW) returns to the throwers cage for the women’s discus throw final to headline the Flame charge in the evening session. Advancing after an anxious wait to see if she would qualify today, Samuels will look to reprieve what was aless then perfect qualifying round.

“Tomorrow is a new day and we have Jared and Dani in the mix which is great,” EricHollingsworth, Australian Team Leader, said.

“We are hopeful for Jared, he’s an Olympic medallist but you always have to see with the walks and for Dani we are confident she can improve on her qualifying round this afternoon.”

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