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Brutal news for Canadian rugby player Conor Trainor he ruptured his right Achilles tendon during Saturday’s 25-9 loss to Romania.

Trainor started at outside centre and the Canadians were pressing the game.

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“It felt like we were building huge pressure on them and not leaving their end,” he said of the game before suffering the injury.

“After that I was just trying to keep it together on the sideline. It’s a pretty easy injury to tell what has happened. Felt like I got hit by a baseball bat!”

The 27 year old will spend the next six weeks on crutches while he deals with his initial recovery period at home in Vancouver with his family. He’ll spend the following five months in Victoria with a boot on his leg; only then will he return to France.

“It’ll be like a year before I play again.”

Trainor spent the last season with RC Vannes in the French second division and had signed to play for Nevers for the 2017-18 season. He previously was a key member of the national sevens program.

Canada plays the USA this Saturday in the first game of a two-match Rugby World Cup qualification series.

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