2023-09-15 05:11:09
The time trial for Paris 2024 now begins for Renaud Lavillenie. The former pole vault world record holder had surgery on his hamstrings this Thursday, and should only resume sprinting in about six months, or four months before the next Olympic Games at home.
Aged 36, Lavillenie was operated on for a partial rupture of the hamstring tendon in his left thigh by Doctor Nicolas Lefèvre of the Sports Clinic in Paris. “Operation gone well, the hamstring tendon is repaired. A new challenge begins today and I am motivated as always. Thank you for the support, I will not give up on my passion,” he posted on his Instagram account, with a countdown of D-324 before Paris 2024.
“I’m not ready to hang up”
Renaud Lavillenie was forced to withdraw from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest (August 19-27), leaving the door open for Thibaut Collet, on the French side, who impressed by beating his personal best twice and finishing 5th with a mark at 5.90 m.
For the 2012 London Olympic champion, the summer had been particularly complicated before his withdrawal. He had not managed to do better than a jump of 5.61 m this season in seven competitions and had not even cleared any bar at the last French Championships in Albi.
“Mentally I am not ready to hang up,” he declared last June before the Oslo meeting. It is clearly the last chance operation for Lavillenie which brings the world of pole vaulting to Paris in 2024.
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