Alice Finot is forfeited for the Tokyo World Championships. Insufficient delivery of a right calf injury, the tricolor athlete will not take part in the 3,000m steeple of the Tokyo Worlds (September 13 to 21).
Victim of a tear (right side) of the aponévrosis between the internal twin and the solar – two muscles of the calf – during the French elite championships in Talence in early August, Alice Finot tried everything to be able to compete in the Worlds in a state of form allowing him to be competitive. A race against the clock that ended this week, since the European champion and recordwoman preferred to give up, this Thursday, to defend her chances in the Japanese capital.
“The priority, just after the French championships, was initially to recover and recover from my injury, through a care protocol,” traces Alice Finot. I was then able to make a progressive rise in running in running in running, both in terms of volume and intensity. I was in a positive dynamic, in advance on the predictions on the recovery plan, and I decided to try it for Tokyo. It was still a bet, because the 3,000 m steepleple is a particularly demanding discipline in the muscle. »»
If the sensations were quickly interesting on the road, with shoes with carbon plate, the next step was to find the track, the points and the barriers, by parallel the essential strengthening for the steepple river. “During the last three days, I felt that the burden necessary to get there was too demanding, given the imparted period,” notes Alice Finot. The injured area began to saturate. Currently, I am unable to cross the river safely and validate a minimum level in 9’10 ”on 3,000 m steeplechase, the condition that I had set myself to go to Tokyo.”
The member of the CA Montreuil 93 installed in Galicia will now cut, “perhaps not as long as usual”, to quickly turn to new goals. “I consider that I am backing up to better jump, with the desire to honor the jersey of the French team in 2026 by being 100 % of my capacities,” projects Alice Finot. Before that, I may think of playing at the end of the year a few road races, a field on which I also want to express myself. »»
