Vault champion Cheng Fei to miss London Olympics  

体操老将程菲训练中跟腱断裂 无缘伦敦奥运会

记者15日从中国体操队获悉：带领中国女子体操队夺得北京奥运会团体金牌的老将程菲在此前一日的训练中意外受伤，导致跟腱断裂，从而无缘今年的伦敦奥运会。

Beijing (CNS) -- Chinese athlete and three-time world vault champion Cheng Fei will give a pass to the 2012 London Olympics because of an Achilles tendon injury, the national gymnastics team announced on Friday.

The 24-year-old girl was a mainstay of her team at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, and at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Cheng reached the summit of her career when she captained the national women's gymnastics team that won a gold medal.

Natural aging and injury problems resulted in Cheng's gradual drift away from competition, but she returned to the arena with the idea of making her mark in the Olympic Games once more. Last month she won the vault title at the World Cup in China.

On June 14 however, Chen was accidently injured during daily training and later had an operation to repair a ruptured Achilles. The operation itself went smoothly, said coach Lu Shanzhen, but her Olympic ambitions have been shelved.