The 2024 Olympics didn’t go as Australian track and field star Michelle Jenneke envisioned, but she’s proud of the perseverance she showed through the toughest periods of the Paris Games.
Instagram Post Jenneke, who made headlines for her “shaking” stunt before the race, revealed on Thursday that she had run the women’s 100m hurdles repechage with a torn hamstring on the 12th, one day after her on-track crash in the main event.
“It wasn’t the Olympics I had dreamed of. I was ready to run the best race of my life but unfortunately in the heats I completely ruptured one of my hamstring tendons and then I hit a hurdle and took a pretty big fall,” said Jenneke, 31, as he began the race.
“I was fortunate to escape the fall without further injury and I am very proud to have overcome the challenges to compete today and finish my Olympic campaign.”
Jenneke was competing in the 100-meter hurdles on Wednesday when he tripped at the third hurdle and then stumbled and fell on the track at the Stade de France.
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She completed the race and qualified to take part in the repechage, a competition where athletes have a second chance to advance to the next round.
“I felt something pop from my front leg up to my knee and I just lost all strength,” Jenneke said after Wednesday’s competition.
An examination revealed that he had completely torn his hamstring tendon. According to the Olympics website.
Jenneke finished in 13.86 seconds on Thursday to miss out on a place in the semi-finals, but said she “wanted to prove to myself and to the whole of Australia that I have guts and that I’m not going to give up easily.”
“I ran today with one hamstring less than usual, so of course it was pretty tough, but … I asked the doctor, ‘Can I still run?'” she said after the race.
Jenneke, captain of Australia’s Olympic team, took a careful look at his surroundings.
“I was standing there, soaking it all up. Despite everything that was going on with my body, I was having a great time, and I always will, because that’s what I do when I’m having fun,” she said.
Jenneke, who made her debut at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and has competed in two Olympics, first came into the spotlight when her warm-up routine at the 2012 Junior World Championships became a hot topic online.
The 2024 Olympics will end on Sunday.
