MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Olympic road race champion Samuel Sanchez has failed to recover from injuries picked up in a fall during the Tour de France and has pulled out of the London Games, the country's cycling federation (RFEC) said on Thursday.
Sanchez beat Italy's Davide Rebellin to top the Olympic podium in China four years ago after a tough, 245-km road race from the Forbidden City in ancient Beijing to the Great Wall.
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