Shoe issue bars triple jump star Rojas from worlds long jump

FILE - Yulimar Rojas, of Venezuela, reacts after setting a new world record in the Women's triple jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, March 20, 2022. Rojas cannot compete in long jump at the world championships in Oregon this month because her qualifying leap was done in unapproved shoes, track and field’s governing body World Athletics said Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

FILE - Yulimar Rojas, of Venezuela, competes in the qualification rounds of the women's triple jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 30, 2021, in Tokyo. Olympic triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas cannot compete in long jump at the world championships in Oregon in July 2022 because her qualifying leap was done in unapproved shoes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)