The Venezuelan Yulimar Rojasfour-time world champion and current Olympic triple jump champion, announced this Friday that she will miss the Paris 2024 Olympic Games due to an injury to his left leg.
“With great pain and sadness I want to tell you that, while training, upon receiving a jump, I had intense pain that resulted in an injury to the left Achilles tendon. My heart is also broken and I want to apologize for not being able to represent you in Paris 2024,” the Venezuelan said in a statement.
Rojas explained that she underwent an operation in Madrid on Thursday and that she is now fully recovering, although “very emotionally affected” by not being able to represent her country at the Olympic event. “They have been very complex hours, in which I have questioned myself and analyzed why this has happened (…) the desire to defend my Olympic title excited me enormously, but today I have to stop, understand this, recover and return with a lot of strength to continue flying together,” he expressed.
The woman from Caracas, who holds the triple jump world record with 15.74 meters, thanked her family and work team, especially for accompanying her at this time. “I wish our Venezuelan delegation much success in Paris 2024, I am very proud of you, and my teammates on the court, may you do your best to also achieve glory. See you soon, with the same dreams and desire,” she concludes. the writing.
Rojas, qualified last July, led the group of 25 Venezuelans with a pass, until now, for the Olympics. Last September, the athlete ruled out participating in the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile to concentrate on her preparation for the Olympics, in which she hoped to renew the gold and defend the global record established in the previous event.
EFE
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