Croatian handball player Ivan Cupic was forced out of the Olympics last Thursday and faces a battle to save his career after losing a finger in a freak accident involving his wedding ring.
Cupic, 22, was at a training camp for the Olympics in the coastal town of Rijeka, when he tripped and caught a wire fence with his wedding ring which sheared off his finger as he fell.
"We took him to the hospital in Rijeka, where unfortunately I had to amputate two-thirds of the finger," said the squad doctor and surgeon Mladen Miskulin.
"Of course he cannot play with such an injury."
Defending champions Croatia are amongst the gold medal favourites in Beijing.
