BEI­JING–Reign­ing Olympic cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott is sug­gest­ing that an an­kle in­jury is not to be blamed for his elim­i­na­tion from the Javelin event at the World Cham­pi­onships on Mon­day.

Wal­cott was elim­i­nat­ed af­ter plac­ing 26th out of 33 com­peti­tors, man­ag­ing on­ly two le­gal throws, 75.16 me­tres and 76.83, his best ef­fort.

"I just went out there, tried to per­form well but it was just a bad com­pe­ti­tion," said the Trinida­di­an ath­lete who set three new records for 2015.

"No oth­er ex­pla­na­tion, just a bad com­pe­ti­tion. Of course, I ex­pect­ed bet­ter throws but I do not know what was go­ing on."

Wal­cott, 22, en­tered the cham­pi­onships as one of the pre-event favourites with a per­son­al and sea­son best of 90.16m. How­ev­er he has been bat­tling an an­kle in­jury which he said did not ham­per his per­for­mance.

"The dis­tances were way off and you can see the re­sults," he said. "There was a lack of com­pe­ti­tion for me since my an­kle in­jury but my an­kle held up good to­day and I am thank­ing God for that. But I would have to say it was a bad com­pe­ti­tion be­cause I was re­al­ly out of it". Wal­cott says he is con­sid­er­ing end­ing his sea­son to al­low his an­kle in­jury to com­plete­ly heal in time for the next sea­son.

"So I just have to go back and con­tin­ue work­ing on it be­cause I do not want to start back train­ing with any prob­lems. I think I am go­ing to call the sea­son there, and con­tin­ue work­ing on my an­kle," said Wal­cott. (CMC)