The Uzbek gymnast Oksana Chusovotina resigned this Friday, due to an injury, to participate in the Asian Championships in Tashkenthim last chance to qualify for the Paris Olympicswhich would be the ninth of his career.
Chusovitina, who will be 49 on June 19, will miss the Games for the first time since Barcelona’92where won the team gold medal with the Soviet Union’s successor Unified Team.
“I have bad news. During podium training at the Asian Championships I was injured in the floor exercise. I was very disappointed,” wrote to their social networks the gymnast, who also won silver on vault at Beijing 2008.
This is the only gymnast to participate in eight Games. In Tokyo announced his retirement and fired by the judges, athletes and the public at the Ariake gym, but Months later, he decided to also try to qualify for those in Paris.
Chusovitine, a great jumping specialistneeded a good score in the all-around competition at the Asian tournament to qualify, which likely led him to strain himself and cause injury.
The gymnast, who? He trained in the Soviet Union, competing for many years for Germany (2006-2012), the country where he lived so that his son could be treated for leukemia. But then he came back to represent his home country.
May eleven world medals, four European and eight Asianalmost all in the jump.
Source: La Verdad
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