By Mitch Phillips BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Remarkable American Ryan Crouser continued his red-hot streak when he twice broke his own championship record and ...
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The double Olympic champion smashed his own world record in May with 23.56m and cranked out four efforts beyond 22 metres the enormous last one - the second-best throw in history - coming with the gold already secure. He did it despite undergoing medical treatment for two blood clots in his leg that had put his participation in doubt.
It was Crouser's night, however, as he maintained his incredible grip on the event with a performance that was all the more remarkable after he revealed on Friday the information about the blood clots. "It's been the most stressful 20 days I've ever had. The week before I was supposed to leave I woke up with calf pain and we thought I had a partial tear in my calf. We treated it like that but after 10 days of no improvement we had a doctor look at it and he said you have two blood clots.
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