London 2012 Olympics: Great Britain basketball star Luol Deng's place at Games in jeopardy after wrist injury

Deng missed Britain's first ever appearance in a European Championships back in 2009 after failing to overcome a stress fracture in his right tibia suffered while playing for the Bulls.

His decision to put off surgery and play through the problem raises questions over whether he will be fit for the Olympics in London.

However, Deng, who suffered a similar injury to his right wrist during the 2004-05 NBA season, ultimately having surgery before the end of the season, is optimistic after consulting the doctors who treated him then.

"It could always be worse. Injuries happen," Deng said.

"And this happened in the fourth quarter of a game. But it is what is. It's just: 'What do we do from here.'

"I'm very confident that I'll be fine. It's sore, but the soreness is going down a lot in two days. So every day [I'll] keep treating it and see if I can get rid of the soreness and just try to be back there as soon as possible."

Deng's injury is the latest setback for GB who are sweating over the fitness of Eric Boateng, Joel Freeland and Nate Reinking.

Performance director Chris Spice admitted that the action in the NBA, in which Deng is logging a career high 38.3 minutes per game, has been "absolutely ferocious" this season.

He added: "The workload on key players and the increased injury risk on players has become quite an issue, certainly the Bulls have been badly hit. There is very little we can do, the lock out has determined that there be this short highly compressed season."

Ethiopian athlete Kenenisa Bekele's London 2012 Olympics participation in doubt after suspension

"I assume there will be talks and this will be turned around, but at the moment we have to live with this."

The suspension could in theory prevent Bekele competing at the London Olympics this summer, where the 29-year-old is expected to be one Mo Farah's chief rivals for gold over either 5,000 or 10,000m or both.

Hermens, though, does not believe the ban will last through the Games.

"I cannot imagine, that would be very silly," he said.

He feels the decision is a knee-jerk reaction from the federation after a poor performance at the World Championships in Daegu last summer.

Ethiopia finished ninth on the medal table with five medals, including just one gold.

Bekele, who was making his comeback in South Korea following an 18-month injury lay-off, dropped out of the 10,000m.

Hermens added: "The federation treat individual athletes as team members and that's not working.

"They have to go on central training. They were panicking after the bad results of Daegu so now they want all the athletes to come and train with the national team, but that doesn't work.

"It's good for forthcoming new athletes, but for people like (double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba) Dibaba or Kenenisa or (long distance great) Haile Gebrselassie, they have their individual programmes so you cannot just put them in a general programme from the federation."

Bekele bounced back from his Daegu disappointment by running the fastest 10,000m of 2011 in Brussels last September.

He declared himself fully recovered from injury ahead of the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country earlier this month, but finished well down the field.

Jason Kenny to be crowned world champion after France's Grégory Baugé stripped of title for anti-doping offence

Baugé, who beat Bolton's Kenny to gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, Holland last March, was last November issued with a one-year back-dated suspension from December 23, 2010 to December 22, 2011 for a "violation of article 21.4 of the UCI Anti-doping Regulation" (two breaches of applicable requirements regarding rider availability and one missed test in 18 months).

A statement from the International Cycling Union (the UCI) read: "The UCI today informed the FFC (Federation Francaise de Cyclisme) that all the results obtained by the rider and by any team of which he was a member during that period have been nullified by this decision.

"The UCI is therefore obliged to correct the results of the events in which Gregory Baugé participated during this period.

"As a consequence, the rider and the French team lose their individual sprint and team sprint titles won at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in March 2011."

Kenny is therefore set to be promoted to the gold medal position, with Sir Chris Hoy poised to be awarded silver after his third-placed finish.

Germany trio Rene Enders, Maximilian Levy and Stefan Nimke are set to take the team sprint crown from France, with France's Michael D'Almeida and Kevin Sireau stripped of their title due to team-mate Baugé's offence.

Britain's Kenny, Hoy and Matt Crampton are set to be promoted from bronze to silver, with Australia poised to be awarded third place.

Meanwhile, French prospect Yoann Offredo is likely to face a ban after the UCI informed the FFC that the FDJ-BigMat rider had missed three anti-doping tests over an 18-month period.

London 2012 Olympics: double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele admits to lack of fitness after struggle in Edinburgh

The Ethiopian, who was competing in only his third race in two injury-plagued years, struggled from the start of the 3km race in Holyrood Park, which was won by Kenya’s world and Olympic 1500 metres champion, Asbel Kiprop, in 9  min 20 sec.

On a day of surprises, 19-year-old Aldershot athlete Jonny Hay enjoyed a stunning breakthrough to take second place in 9-25, one second ahead of Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, the Olympic 5,000m silver medallist.

Bekele finished in 9-42, a performance that will be an encouragement to Britain’s Mo Farah, who is training at high altitude in Kenya.

“The course was OK but my shape was not good,” Bekele said. “I am 50/50 and I was not confident before the race. But it’s a long time until the Olympics and it is too early to be in better shape.”

Irishwoman Fionnuala Britton, the European cross-country champion, was a runaway winner of the women’s 6km race in 21-32, with Britons Gemma Steel and Elle Baker second and third respectively.