Chusovitina retired from the Asian Championships with an injury and may not be able to participate in the Olympics for the ninth time, but there is still a last ray of hope

2024-05-23 17:27:40

Chusovitina retired from the Asian Championships with an injury and may not be able to participate in the Olympics for the ninth time, but there is still a last ray of hope

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2024-05-23 17:13Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

On May 23, 48-year-old Uzbek gymnast Chusovitina posted on social media that she would withdraw from the upcoming Asian Gymnastics Championships due to an injury she had sustained in training. Missing out on the Asian Gymnastics Championships means that Chusovitina is almost out of the Paris Olympics.

Chusovitina retired from the Asian Championships with an injury and may not be able to participate in the Olympics for the ninth time, but there is still a last ray of hope

Chusovitina said on social media that she had been injured in training the day before and had to withdraw from the competition. The Asian Championships is a qualifier for the Paris Olympics, and she feels sad that she can't participate because she has been preparing for a long time.

Last year, Chusovitina failed to make it past the individual all-around preliminaries at the World Championships and failed to qualify for the Olympics. This year, she missed out on a ticket to the Paris Olympics in the World Cup series. The upcoming Asian Championships will be Chusovitina's last chance to make it to Paris, and the individual all-around champion will qualify for the Olympics.

Since Barcelona 1992, Chusovitina has competed in eight consecutive Olympic Games. In the previous eight Olympic Games, Chusovitina won a total of two medals – in 1992 she won a gold medal in the team event as a member of the CIS delegation. Later, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won the silver medal in the women's vault.

As a great mother and a great athlete, Chusovitina devoted almost everything to her family and to the sport she loved, gymnastics. The story of Chusovitina's participation in the treatment of children is one of the legends in the history of the Olympic Games. Even not being able to compete in Paris cannot hide her contribution to gymnastics and the Olympics.

Chusovitina still has one last chance of competing in Paris, and the International Gymnastics Federation has an Olympic wild card, but it is still unknown whether it will be issued to Chusovitina.

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