Atalina Johnson-Thompson In the 200-meter race, her Olympic heptathlon hope was shattered in the last race on the first day of Tokyo.
The British athlete participated in the Olympics and is not sure what will happen to her body eight months after Achilles tendon surgery.
But when she turned to the straights of the sprint project, the old injuries seemed to erupt again, which is usually one of her strongest disciplines.
For the British athlete, this means more heartache. He has suffered heartache from various Grand Slam champions in the past, from staggering in the high jump to three fouls in the long jump.
This seems to be the cruelest. In 2019, she won the world championship in the form of her life. She believes that she will continue until 2020. The one-year postponement of the Olympic Games actually made her lose the chance to win the gold medal because she injured her Achilles tendon and had to undergo surgery.
To make matters worse, she was disqualified for running out of her lane because she avoided medical assistance and staggered across the finish line because she echoed Derek Redmond at the 1992 Olympics. .
The Liverpool native admitted on the eve of the game that she did not know how her body would deal with the harsh tests of the seven competitions, and that four of them had not yet been fully resolved. The treatment of her Achilles tendon for a long time between high jumps highlights the importance of physical challenges.
A few days before Tokyo, Johnson Thompson declared that he was healthy, but not necessarily in his personal best condition. After watching BBC’s “Gold Rush” series during the preparation of the event, she was encouraged and hoped to win the Olympic Games. She insisted that the Olympic Games will highlight her champion performance.
Therefore, in her first 100-meter hurdle race, this was initially proved because she won the preliminaries with a time of 13.27 seconds, which was her fastest time outside of Doha in 2019, when she was in all competitions. It seems that almost no one can match.
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However, the jumping event is always a big question mark. She lacks the usual fluency in the high jump, failing at 1.80m and twice at 1.83m. As an athlete with a PB of 1.98, she usually crosses these heights. She eventually retired with a 1.86m, which was far from the 1.95m achieved in Doha.
At the same time, her main competitor, Tiam, achieved the best 1.98 meters of the season, but was 10 cm shorter than her own PB, which gave Johnson Thompson some relative enthusiasm.
In the shot put competition, the British shot the second long distance of 13.31m. Although Thiam completed 14.82m, it was lower than the Belgian’s usual best result.
But all of this is irrelevant, because the Achilles problem seemed to suddenly erupt in the middle of the 200 meters, and the British athlete left the track in tears.
