On April 23, Beijing time, the World Gymnastics Federation officially announced the list of athletes who qualified for the Paris Olympics through the top two individual points in each World Cup.
Chusovitina had hoped to qualify for Paris through the World Cup vault event, but her best time was fifth in Otbus and Doha, and she was also fifth in the overall points, missing out on the Olympics. The top two places in the vault event were North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok and Bulgaria's Georgiena, who also qualified for the Paris Olympics. For Chusovitina, not being able to qualify for Paris through her strong sport, the vault, has also distanced her from her ninth Olympic Games.
Chusovitina doesn't have much time or opportunity left, and her recent social media updates suggest that she is already trying to regain three other events in addition to vault in order to make her ninth appearance at the Olympics, and to compete in the individual all-around at the Asian Gymnastics Championships in late May to qualify for the Paris Olympics. However, in order to get the only ticket to the Paris Olympics at the Asian Gymnastics Championships, Chusovitina faces the "encirclement" of North Korean and Filipino athletes, and her age is to compete in four individual events in a short period of time.
Chusovitina, who will turn 49 in June, is a legendary athlete in the history of world gymnastics. She won gold with the team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, but she continues to fight for her passion. Because her son suffered from leukemia, Chusovitina made a comeback at the age of 27 and transferred to Germany to run races large and small to earn medical expenses. After her son's illness was cured, Chusovitina returned to her homeland and continued to compete on behalf of Uzbekistan, writing an inspirational myth of the eight-time Olympic Games.