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Subject Margot Chevrier
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(France 3)
Victim of a compound fracture of her left ankle at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow on March 2, Margot Chevrier set herself a challenge: to get back on her feet in time to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Stopped in mid-flight. While she was making a winter “madness”, including a title of French champion with a jump of 4.66m – her highest ever achieved indoors – Margot Chevrier suffered a serious injury on Saturday March 2 at the world indoor championships in Glasgow. Falling back on the barrier on her attempt at 4.65m, the Niçoise fractured her left ankle and had to be evacuated on a stretcher.
A place reserved for the Olympics thanks to its ranking
“When I heard the crack, I told myself it was dead for the Games”, admits the best French pole vaulter of the moment. Fifth-year medical student, Margot Chevrier found hope in her classes and medical diagnoses, which do not exclude the possibility of being able to participate in the Olympics. “For now, as long as I have a 1% chance of being there, I will give everything”she blurted out determinedly.
Especially since his ranking (currently 14th in the Ranking) ensures his place for the competition. “I think it would be a nice way to end the accident and start on something else afterwards,” concludes the pole vaulter, well motivated not to spend her summer in the stands of the Stade de France, but on the track.
