Greg Rutherford, the Olympic long jump champion, has claimed he is risking permanent hearing loss in his left ear by continuing to compete. Rutherford said there was a one in four chance the problem, called cochlear hydrops, would become a lifelong affliction. “I knew I shouldn’t have jumped in Birmingham because I felt really stiff,” Rutherford said. Hopefully it will come back, but there’s a one in four chance it never will fully recover, according to the doctor. They were quoting $20,000 to stay overnight, but I’m not sure if that was even necessary so I just had antibiotics.

Source: The Guardian July 05, 2016 21:13 UTC