5-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah appeared to undergo an Achilles damage throughout the USATF New York Metropolis Grand Prix on Sunday.
Thompson-Herah, 31, was competing within the 100-meter race at Icahn Stadium when she started to lose her early lead.
Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica seems on after the ladies’s 100-meter race throughout the 2024 USATF NYC Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium on June 9, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Pictures)
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 finally 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 but it surely bought worse,” she wrote, including that she is “awaiting skilled recommendation.”
Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica after working the ultimate leg of her group’s bronze medal win within the Ladies’s 4 x 100m Relay – Closing throughout the Athletics competitors at Alexander Stadium throughout the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games on Aug. 7, 2022, in Birmingham, England. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Pictures)
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Sunday’s damage comes lower than 50 days out from the Summer season 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.
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah together with her gold medal throughout the medal ceremony for the Ladies’s 200m – Closing at Alexander Stadium on day 10 of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, England, on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (Martin Rickett/PA Pictures through Getty Pictures)
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Jamaica’s monitor and area Olympic trials are slated to start June 27.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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