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Australian international Glenn Scott will miss the final four rounds of the 2016 World Supersport Championship due to ongoing complications with his broken leg sustained in Aragon’s third round of the season.

Due to complications and what his Australian surgeon has called a ‘non-union’ (an infection has occurred early after surgery and has prevented healing for a period of time), Scott has had to make the toughest decision of his career to not return for the end of the season.

“I have my head in my hands, it’s absolutely heartbreaking and I’m extremely sad to be forced to sit out the rest of this season due to injury,” Scott said. “It has definitely been a life-changing experience. I have good and bad days, but my main focus right now is to walk properly again and eliminate the pain I feel every day and get back to 100 percent fitness for the 2017 season.

“I have been looking at every possible avenue to speed this recovery process up, even the hyperbaric oxygen chambers, but nothing is working fast enough. We definitely didn’t think that this would be the outcome, but the break was just a lot bigger than what we thought.

“It has been a very emotional recovery process for me. I have put 110 percent effort every day to get back on my Honda CBR600, but unfortunately I just have to accept that my body just isn’t ready and that it needs more time. I want to thank everyone for their amazing support this year, it has been overwhelming and it has kept me going through this tough time.

“I am disappointed that I could not show my team and sponsors what I really could do with my bike this season, as it started off so promising, but I won’t give up on making a full recovery and come back fitter, stronger and faster than ever next season, wherever that may be.”