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Australia’s Aron Baynes Out of Olympics After Slipping in Bathroom

It’s always disappointing to have your Olympic journey end, but it must have been especially frustrating for Australia’s Aron Baynes.

Baynes, who also plays for the Raptors, will miss the rest of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament after sustaining a neck injury in what team doctor David Hughes called “a complicated series of events.” It’s the sort of bizarre injury you usually only see in baseball.

u200bu200b“He did suffer an injury during the match on the court, and then he had a slip in the bathroom and suffered further injury,” Hughes told reporters.