According to Gimnasia Latina, Manrique Larduet suffered injuries in both wrists and is now undergoing treatment. Larduet posted an x-ray of his hands on Instagram, saying: “I’m going through an uncomfortable moment in my career. I ended 2018 with discomfort on my two wrists. You could see that my performance dropped during the last stages [of the season]. I hope that with the treatment of stem cells I can be cured of the discomfort that I have on my wrists, otherwise, in February I will have to go through surgery”.
Larduet is the 2015 silver AA World medalist and was expected to be a huge medal threat in Rio. However, he’s been experiencing a string of injuries since then that prevented him from reaching his full potential. At the 2018 Worlds, he did not compete all-around and finished 9th in the high bar qualifications just missing on the event final.
Translation from Spanish by @GimnastasNet
