Summer Sports


Idowu denies injury stories ahead of preparation for Crystal Palace return

By Mike Rowbottom on the River Thames in London

Phillips Idowu_11_JulyJuly 11 - Britain's former world triple jump champion Phillips Idowu, who last competed on June 1, denied today that his apparent lay-off was due to injury, insisting that he had pulled out of the British Olympic trials and meetings in Oslo and Paris as a precautionary measure ahead of London 2012.