MONTREAL — World champion decathlete Pierce LePage has received a medical exemption and won’t compete this week at the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic track and field trials.

LePage, considered one of Canada’s biggest podium contenders for this summer’s Paris Games, won world championship gold last year and silver in 2022.

But the exemption raises concerns about his potential of going for gold in Paris after the 28-year-old from Whitby, Ont., also missed the Hypo Meeting in Götzis, Austria, in May.