FILE PHOTO: Athletics - IAAF Athletics Diamond League meeting - Men's 200m - Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, China, May 13, 2017 - Noah Lyles of USA celebrates. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - U.S. teenage prospect Noah Lyles pulled out of the 200 metres semi-finals at the American trials on Sunday with a hamstring strain, ending his chance of competing in August's world championships in London.
"He has a little bit of a strain in his right hamstring and he didn't want to risk it," his agent Mark Wetmore told Reuters. "He was trying to warm up and he couldn't fully extend."
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