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Shilese Jones will miss Paris Olympics after injury at gymnastics trials

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Shilese Jones will miss Paris Olympics after injury at gymnastics trials

MINNEAPOLIS — No one pictured Paris with out Shilese Jones.

Workforce USA suffered a slew of devastating accidents in fast succession on the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, together with one that may take Jones out of the Paris Video games.

USA Gymnastics introduced Saturday that, after analysis, Jones won’t be persevering with by means of to the ultimate day of trials Sunday, slashing her hopes of constructing the Paris crew.

Jones, a 21-year-old from Seattle, was a near-lock for the Olympic crew after successful six world championship medals up to now two years.

Whereas warming up on the vault at Friday’s trials, Jones landed brief and instantly cradled her knee.

She is the third front-runner for the Paris crew to undergo a season-ending damage this week in Minneapolis. Skye Blakely ruptured her Achilles in coaching on Wednesday and Kayla DiCello suffered the identical damage on the high of Friday’s competitors.

Jones obtained medical consideration after her vault and was carried off the competitors ground, however all seemed to be effectively when she re-entered the sector. She tried one other warmup vault, however balked, unable to finish her run.

Nonetheless, Jones rallied by means of seen grimaces of ache and hit her finest occasion, the uneven bars. She earned the very best rating of the night time with a 14.675.

Jones carried out a barely simpler routine than typical, omitting a tough ability, a laid-out Jaeger, on the high. The dismount was strong, however she limped off the ground after the influence to her injured knee.

After that routine, she scratched the remainder of the meet.

Jones additionally withdrew final month from the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Fort Value, Texas, nursing an unrelated shoulder damage. She filed a petition with USA Gymnastics to compete at trials, which was authorized.

In 2021, Jones simply missed the Tokyo Olympic crew, ending tenth at trials. Later that yr she misplaced her father, who had inspired her to strive as soon as extra for an Olympic berth.

Her solely all-around exhibiting this yr was the Core Hydration Basic in Might, the place Jones solidified herself as Workforce USA’s strongest asset behind Simone Biles, ending second within the all-around competitors and successful the uneven bars.

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