Kurt Angle Pulls Out Of Olympics
Posted by David Damage on Monday, April 16, 2012
Under: Superstar Blogs
Kurt Angle announced on Twitter he would be pulling out of the U.S. Olympics Trials due to a series of injuries.....
"I Plan On Wrestling @ Lockdown and see what happens from there. I've had worse injuries while Pro Wrestling and worked around them
Due to Hamstring@Knee Injuries, I'm forced to Pull out of trials. Had a talk W/ Usa Wrestling Coach Zeke Jones Who has Supported Me all Year. I trained Extremely hard for a full Year. I'm Very Disappointed. I want to thank All the fans for Ur Support. U Motivated Me.
I Must focus On TNA and Lockdown PPV, Which Has Always Been My 1st Priority. I Hope to Be Able to Put On the Best Performance I Can. TNA Has Supported My Olympic Dream Since the Day I Approached Dixie Carter about My Quest for Gold! Thank You.
I injured My MCL in My Knee. The Doctors Say It's a partial tear which will take 4-6 Months w/ rehab. I Will have It Heavily Protected at Lockdown. I've Had Prior Knee Injuries More Serious than this @ Still Won Ncaa's but I Must Put My Job in Tna 1st. Again, thank You all for Us Support. Ur Support. Your Prayers and Support Have motivated Me to Put On the Best Performance I Can at Lockdown, Considering My injuries.
As Zeke Jones told Me, We Were Hoping that Father time Would Hold Off Until After London Olympics. Unfortunately It Hit Me Hard 1 Month Prior to Olympic trials. Thank You to All My training Partners, Especially Edinboro Univ Wrestlers and Coach Tim Flynn and Tony Dipietro.
Training for Gold and Wrestling for #ImpactWrestling at the Same time took it's toll. I'm Still Proud that I Went 4 It at age 43. Thx to all the fans Who Supported Me! I Will Heal and focus On What I Do Best and that's Perform for all Of You. GOD Bless!"
In an interview with Dan Gelston of the Associated Press, Kurt Angle talked about his match with Jeff Hardy and his plans for after Lockdown.
He said: "I'm going to see how I feel. I don't plan on taking any time off. In pro wrestling, you can work around your injuries and still have a great, awesome match. But this cage match is very dangerous. I am facing Jeff Hardy. He's a high flyer. We're going to do a lot of crazy stuff in this match. I pray to God I don't further injure my injuries anymore. But I am brave enough, and maybe I'm stupid, but I want the fans to say, 'That was the best match I saw all year.' That's hard to say when you have Triple H and Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match. But Jeff Hardy and I are capable of having just as good of a match as Undertaker and Triple H."
Kurt Angle also talked to the Associated Press and here are the highlights:
On the injury: ' I feel like it was a waste of time. Here I am, at the 11:30 hour, and I get the worst injury I've gotten in the last year. I've had four or five injuries, but I've worked around them. This one, I can't work around. There's no way around it.''
On being advised by US Olympic Team coach Zeke Jones to withdraw: ''We have such incredible, awesome competition, that with my MCL injury, they would have torn me apart."
On his match at Lockdown still being on: ''In amateur wrestling, I have no control over what's going to happen to me. My No. 1 priority is TNA Wrestling. With TNA, I can work around my injuries and still have a five-star match.''
On whether he would have made it if not for the injury: ''I really thought that I had a legitimate shot of at least making the team, or being an Olympic alternate. At 43, no one's ever done it. I had that opportunity. I had that shot.''
"I Plan On Wrestling @ Lockdown and see what happens from there. I've had worse injuries while Pro Wrestling and worked around them
Due to Hamstring@Knee Injuries, I'm forced to Pull out of trials. Had a talk W/ Usa Wrestling Coach Zeke Jones Who has Supported Me all Year. I trained Extremely hard for a full Year. I'm Very Disappointed. I want to thank All the fans for Ur Support. U Motivated Me.
I Must focus On TNA and Lockdown PPV, Which Has Always Been My 1st Priority. I Hope to Be Able to Put On the Best Performance I Can. TNA Has Supported My Olympic Dream Since the Day I Approached Dixie Carter about My Quest for Gold! Thank You.
I injured My MCL in My Knee. The Doctors Say It's a partial tear which will take 4-6 Months w/ rehab. I Will have It Heavily Protected at Lockdown. I've Had Prior Knee Injuries More Serious than this @ Still Won Ncaa's but I Must Put My Job in Tna 1st. Again, thank You all for Us Support. Ur Support. Your Prayers and Support Have motivated Me to Put On the Best Performance I Can at Lockdown, Considering My injuries.
As Zeke Jones told Me, We Were Hoping that Father time Would Hold Off Until After London Olympics. Unfortunately It Hit Me Hard 1 Month Prior to Olympic trials. Thank You to All My training Partners, Especially Edinboro Univ Wrestlers and Coach Tim Flynn and Tony Dipietro.
Training for Gold and Wrestling for #ImpactWrestling at the Same time took it's toll. I'm Still Proud that I Went 4 It at age 43. Thx to all the fans Who Supported Me! I Will Heal and focus On What I Do Best and that's Perform for all Of You. GOD Bless!"
In an interview with Dan Gelston of the Associated Press, Kurt Angle talked about his match with Jeff Hardy and his plans for after Lockdown.
He said: "I'm going to see how I feel. I don't plan on taking any time off. In pro wrestling, you can work around your injuries and still have a great, awesome match. But this cage match is very dangerous. I am facing Jeff Hardy. He's a high flyer. We're going to do a lot of crazy stuff in this match. I pray to God I don't further injure my injuries anymore. But I am brave enough, and maybe I'm stupid, but I want the fans to say, 'That was the best match I saw all year.' That's hard to say when you have Triple H and Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match. But Jeff Hardy and I are capable of having just as good of a match as Undertaker and Triple H."
Kurt Angle also talked to the Associated Press and here are the highlights:
On the injury: ' I feel like it was a waste of time. Here I am, at the 11:30 hour, and I get the worst injury I've gotten in the last year. I've had four or five injuries, but I've worked around them. This one, I can't work around. There's no way around it.''
On being advised by US Olympic Team coach Zeke Jones to withdraw: ''We have such incredible, awesome competition, that with my MCL injury, they would have torn me apart."
On his match at Lockdown still being on: ''In amateur wrestling, I have no control over what's going to happen to me. My No. 1 priority is TNA Wrestling. With TNA, I can work around my injuries and still have a five-star match.''
On whether he would have made it if not for the injury: ''I really thought that I had a legitimate shot of at least making the team, or being an Olympic alternate. At 43, no one's ever done it. I had that opportunity. I had that shot.''
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