5-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah appeared to endure an Achilles damage in the course of the USATF New York Metropolis Grand Prix on Sunday, which comes lower than 50 days out from the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris.
Thompson-Herah, 31, was competing within the 100-meter race at Icahn Stadium when she started to lose her early lead.
Elaine Thompson-Herah after the ladies’s 100m in the course of the USATF Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium on June 9, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Photographs)
She completed final with a time of 11.48 seconds and started to limp away from the end line.
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The Jamaican monitor star might be seen bent over in ache after taking off her proper shoe. She was ultimately carried off the monitor.
Thompson-Herah supplied an replace on Instagram shortly after the occasion.
“I felt one thing uncomfortable as I started to push I nonetheless tried to go however it received worse,” she wrote, including that she is “awaiting skilled recommendation.”
Elaine Thompson-Herah after operating the ultimate leg of her workforce’s bronze medal win within the ladies’s 4x100m relay last in the course of the Commonwealth Video games on Aug. 7, 2022, in Birmingham, England. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Photographs)
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Sunday’s damage comes lower than 50 days out from the Summer time Video games in Paris.
Thompson-Herah is the defending champion within the ladies’s 100-meter and 200-meter. She additionally gained gold within the ladies’s 4×100-meter relay on the 2020 Olympic Video games in Tokyo.
She additionally gained gold within the 100-meter and 200-meter on the Olympics in Rio.
Elaine Thompson-Herah together with her gold medal for the ladies’s 200m last at Alexander Stadium in the course of the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham on Aug. 7, 2022. (Martin Rickett/PA Photographs through Getty Photographs)
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Jamaica’s monitor and discipline Olympic trials are slated to start June 27.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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