The Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and world record holder in the triple jump suffered a severed Achilles tendon and underwent surgery in Spain.
Her recovery is estimated to take no less than 5 months.
Unfortunately, news arrived today from Spain for Pan American sports and especially for Venezuela.
The Team Panam Sports ambassador, Olympic, world and Pan American triple jump champion suffered a serious injury, cutting the Achilles tendon in one of her legs.
With this she misses the Paris Olympic Games where she hoped to revalidate the gold medal she achieved in Tokyo.
In a statement issued by her entourage, it is stated that
“I want to inform you that I will not be able to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With great pain and sadness I want to tell you that while training, upon receiving a jump, I had intense pain that translated into an injury to the left Achilles tendon. My heart is broken too and I want to apologize for not being able to represent you at Paris 2024.”
“Today I am already recovering after my operation that was performed this Thursday, April 11 at the CEMTRO Clinic in Madrid – Spain, with a wonderful team of professionals led by the specialist in Traumatology and Surgery, Dr. Pedro Guillén and supported by the Dr. Tomás Fernández. They have been very complex hours, in which I have questioned myself and analyzed why this has happened, however I understand that, in God’s designs, we are only instruments of his will. Today I feel very emotionally affected by not being able to represent them, the desire to defend my Olympic title excited me enormously but today I have to stop, understand this, recover and come back with great strength to continue flying together”
Source: Panam Sports
