Injured Carroll forced to miss track season

MARK CARROLL, laid low with an injury sustained while training at altitude for the Boston Marathon, will miss this year’s track season — including the world championships in Paris — with a planned return to competitive athletics in another marathon a the end of the year.

He picked up the injury while training in Albuquerque last month but it appeared at first to be of a comparatively minor nature.

"In fact I had an MRI scan six weeks ago and it came back negative," he said. "But when I went back training two weeks ago it was obvious there was so much pain there had to be something seriously wrong. I had been back running for two weeks."