Fearing injury, quad unlikely for Lysacek

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) World champion Evan Lysacek probably will not perform a quad jump at the Vancouver Olympics, saying he doesn't want to risk re-injuring his left foot.

The American said Thursday he worried he had developed another stress fracture from training the quad after last month's U.S. championships.

He does not have a stress fracture, and says his foot feels fine after he had therapy on it.

But doing the quadruple jump - and all the training needed to perfect it - puts too much strain on his foot.

Lysacek has shown he doesn't necessarily need the quad. He won his world title in March without doing one, only announcing afterward that he competed with a stress fracture in his left foot.

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