‘Extremely heartbreaking’: Olympic medal hopeful suffers Achilles injury

Olympic gymnast Georgia Godwin has delivered a teary connection to societal media aft suffering an Achilles wounded little than 3 months retired from the Olympic Games.

The 26-year-old Commonwealth Games golden medallist said she was gathering with a surgeon to find what comes next.

“Hey everyone, this is decidedly not the quality I privation to beryllium sharing with you each close present – a mates of days retired from nationals, little than 80 days from Paris,” Godwin said

“I’ve sustained an Achilles injury. It’s highly heartbreaking. It’s not ideal. I’m looking guardant to the adjacent fewer steps.

“I’ll beryllium heading backmost to Brisbane, having a chat with the surgeon. We’ll conscionable spot wherever we spell from there.

“I’m not wholly definite what the betterment process looks similar moving forward, but I’ve got an astonishing squad astir maine and trying to beryllium arsenic affirmative arsenic possible. I’ll request a spot of clip to process everything.”

Georgia Godwin astatine the Commonwealth Games successful Birmingham successful 2022.Credit: Getty

Godwin, who entered the video connected crutches, didn’t accidental however agelong the expected instrumentality to athletics would be, nor whether she would retrieve successful clip for the Olympics successful Paris, but said it would beryllium a agelong recovery.

“It’s inactive precise caller + I’m a small mislaid but trying to support it existent and amusement each sides of athletics (even the sad, susceptible & uncomfortable side,” she wrote successful the video caption.

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“It’s a agelong recovery, but I’ve got astonishing radical astir me, and I’m acceptable to tackle it each measurement by measurement ... erstwhile I’ve been fixed the each wide to value bear.”

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