Venezuelan athlete Yulimar Rojas, Olympic and environment triple soar champion, has been ruled out of the 2024 Paris Olympics with an Achilles tendon injury.
Rojas endured the personal injury through a instruction session in Spain and has given that gone through surgery in Madrid.
28-year-outdated Rojas won the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She is also the present globe report holder.
At the Tokyo Olympics, in her closing endeavor, Rojas arrived up with a jump of 15.67 metres, breaking the globe and Olympic documents. She would split her possess report in 2022, extending it to 15.74m.
She was hoping to compete in the Paris Olympics and protect her gold medal, and sign up for Cameroon’s Françoise Mbango Etone as the only other female with two golds in the triple leap celebration.
Rojas received the Entire world Championships gold four times, winning the triple soar party in 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023. She also gained the Earth Indoor Championships 3 situations.
“It is with wonderful pain and sadness that I want to convey to you that although I was teaching, I fell on the descent from a jump. I experienced rigorous suffering that was identified as an injury to my remaining Achilles tendon,” Rojas wrote in an Instagram submit, publishing a photograph of herself lying on a clinic bed.
“My coronary heart is damaged and I want to say sorry that I will not be able to choose component in Paris 2024,” she added in her statement.
Rojas last competed in September 2023 when she received the Diamond League finals. She has been out of motion since March this 12 months.