The Spanish athlete María Vicente starred in one of the most painful moments of the Indoor World Athletics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, where the athlete was seriously injured before the high jump event in the pentathlon.
The images that circulated on social networks show the exact moment in which the athlete who was leading the competition suffered a rupture of the Achilles tendon in her left leg just as she was running to perform her jump. “My heart has sank,” said the Spanish television commentator when watching the replay. “She’s foot has failed to support her. We hope that nothing has happened to her, but she has hurt herself, a real shame, but that seems to be the Achilles tendon,” the analyst continued.
“Please, no!” implored the Catalan athlete as she touched the affected area through tears. The doctors tried to calm her down and quickly assisted her. But the diagnosis was more than clear. Vicente was about to jump the pole that was at a height of 1.73 meters after having exceeded 1.70.
Vicente, 22 years old, had just broken her own record in an indoor pentathlon with a historic score and had managed to qualify for the World Cup, but this severe injury will keep her out of the sport for a few months and she will also have no chance of competing in the Games. Paris 2024 Olympics.
The representative of Spain gave her testimony to the media in the locker room and, still moved by the situation she had to experience on the court, cried: “The first thing I am going to ask of you is time, because I don’t know if I am capable of saying This quickly and so that I can be understood well. “From what has been seen in medical studies, this is a total rupture of the Achilles tendon.”
“They will take me to Barcelona to have surgery and begin rehabilitation. I wanted to thank you all for the encouragement and welcome you have given me after the injury and rest assured that I will return and stronger, I hope. Thank you all very much for what you have done for me and you already know that I will return,” the athlete closed with moist eyes.
It is not the first time that Vicente suffers a serious injury and has to undergo surgery, since she had previously undergone surgery on the rectus femoris of the quadriceps, but she has returned to competition after an extensive recovery. This time will be no exception.
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