Five-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah appeared to undergo an Achilles harm through the USATF New York City Grand Prix on Sunday, which comes lower than 50 days out from the 2024 Olympic 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 through the USATF Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium on June 9, 2024, in New York City. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
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 may very well 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 nevertheless it bought worse,” she wrote, including that she is “awaiting skilled recommendation.”
Elaine Thompson-Herah after operating the ultimate leg of her crew’s bronze medal win within the girls’s 4x100m relay last through the Commonwealth Games on Aug. 7, 2022, in Birmingham, England. (Tim Clayton/Corbis by way of Getty Images)
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Sunday’s harm comes lower than 50 days out from the Summer Games in Paris.
Thompson-Herah is the defending champion within the girls’s 100-meter and 200-meter. She additionally gained gold within the girls’s 4×100-meter relay on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
She additionally gained gold within the 100-meter and 200-meter on the Olympics in Rio.
Elaine Thompson-Herah along with her gold medal for the ladies’s 200m last at Alexander Stadium through the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Aug. 7, 2022. (Martin Rickett/PA Images by way of Getty Images)
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Jamaica’s monitor and area Olympic trials are slated to start June 27.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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