Paris 2024 will be the first Olympic Games without Oksana Chusovitina in more than three decades.
The Uzbekistani gymnast has competed in eight consecutive Olympic Games, beginning with the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. She announced Thursday that she sustained an injury before her final qualification opportunity, the Asian Championships in Tashkent. The 48-year-old gymnast became an icon for her resilience and longevity in a sport known for early retirements.
” Chusotvitina is a two-time Olympic medalist, having won a team gold medal with the Unified Team in 1992 and a bronze on the vault representing Germany at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she became the oldest female gymnast to compete at an Olympic Games at 46. Chusovitina moved to Germany in 2002 while her son received treatment there for acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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