French pole vaulter Margot Chevrier gave her news this Friday. In the Télématin show on France 2, the 24-year-old young woman spoke about her terrible injury – talus fracture – on Saturday during the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
“I saw myself as an Olympic athlete who was seeing the Games go a little far away. It crossed my mind. And then, I saw my wrong foot and then I said to myself: “phew… taking charge isn’t going to be fun”. And there, I think it was the medical student who took the return, saying to herself: now I know what is going to happen behind…”
The French pole vaulter also spoke about the first moments after her accident. “We basically had to put the two pieces of the fracture back into alignment because one of the two pieces was blocking the circulation of blood. That was the priority. It was going to hurt. But the priority was that I didn’t lose my footing anyway. »
“I know what I have to do”
Victim of a fracture of the talus, a bone between the tibia and the heel, the athlete who trains in Bordeaux was smiling in front of the journalist Laurie Delhostal when discussing the future and the Olympic Games in which she think I can still participate.
“I know what I have to do, a lot of rehabilitation. I’m thinking of a short three weeks in Capbreton at the rehabilitation center doing intensive training there. And then as soon as my foot no longer hurts, I think you’ll see me on the networks doing handstands and abs on the high bar with a cast. »
Returning home on Wednesday evening after spending three days in Scotland after the operation where three screws were placed in her left ankle and a skin graft, Margot Chevrier is resolutely determined not to miss the Olympic deadline.
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