2024-07-08 18:11:14
Images of Kevin Mayer face down on the music, holding his hands before hiding his face while screaming, his tears spilled on Tartan, his great sadness, took to the Charléty stadium on Sunday. Decathlete, who struggled for a long time to get his ticket for the Paris Olympics, is not yet on the ground but here he is, once again, launched into a time trial.
On Sunday, the Frenchman left the stadium wet. A picture which shows the difficult times that the champion has gone through in the last two seasons. Laying out, already in tears, in Budapest 2023 World Championships due to pain in the Achilles tendon which has put the right to direct eligibility for the Olympics, then a year 2024 of physical problems has forced to postpone his return to competition in many times .
Since the European Championships, where despite a great burden in the pole vault (he escaped on the 3rd and last attempt), Mayer has his Olympic ticket in his pocket, we think he is on the right path. On Sunday, his fragile body remembered him. It was even more annoying because initially, Kevin Mayer did not plan to compete in the 110m hurdles, before finally changing his plans after the weight competition. He couldn’t finish the race, despite his best first part.
“Treatment in a hyperbaric chamber”
An MRI performed early Monday morning revealed a significant lesion in the hamstring of his left leg. The emergency system was activated immediately. Carefully monitored by the medical staff, the decathlete, whose first day of competition is scheduled for Friday August 2, will have special opportunities through a hyperbaric chamber, which aims to accelerate healing. He has used this technique in the past with success.
“Kévin and his team do everything they can to arrange treatment as quickly and efficiently as possible. Support has already begun, explained those around him in a press release published this Monday evening. Obviously the program includes physiotherapy follow-up but also treatment in a hyperbaric chamber, Kevin responds well to this procedure. »
The race against time is on, albeit with reality. “Everything will be done to be at the start of the Olympic decathlon on August 2. Until then, regular measurements will be made to determine whether or not it is realistic to pursue one’s Olympic dream,” the statement said. In Paris, Kevin Mayer hopes to participate in his 4th Olympic Games. He has already won silver in Rio in 2016 and in Tokyo in 2021.
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