If Taylor is ultimately unable to compete this summer it leaves open an unexpected opportunity for Team USA comrade Will Claye, also his teammate while at the University of Florida, who over the past decade has consistently finished in Taylor's shadow.
The duo is unlike anything the sport has ever seen. Together they're the two-time reigning Olympic champion and runner-up from the 2016 and 2012 Games, and the two-time reigning world champion and runner-up from the 2019 and 2017 world championships. In each of those four, Taylor and Claye went 1-2, respectively.
Claye has only earned triple jump gold at the world indoor championships, winning twice in 2012 and 2018, and beating Taylor in the former. Taylor hasn't competed at a world indoors since. Claye's only defeat of Taylor at a major global title competition outdoors was his bronze at the aforementioned 2013 worlds in Moscow.
Claye, 29, has the best triple mark in the world since the Rio Games — an 18.14m hop-skip-jump from June 2019 in California.
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