Noguchi Out of Osaka International With Stress Fracture – translated by Brett Larner – Japan Running News

On Jan. 16 the organizing committee of the Jan. 26 Osaka International Women's Marathon announced that 2004 Athens Olympics marathon gold medalist and national record holder Mizuki Noguchi (35, Team Sysmex) has withdrawn from the race after sustaining a stress fracture in the shaft of her right femur.  

Now the third year in a row that she has withdrawn from Osaka shortly before the race, Noguchi issued a statement through the organizers saying, "I very strongly want to run this race, but rather than overdoing it now it's more important to let my leg recover and make progress toward another goal.  

Once this injury is healed I'd like to set an early spring race as a target and start working on training for that."

translated by Brett Larner – Japan Running News

 https://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/etc/news/20140116-OHT1T00079.htm