@MikeCanales1:
Sources at International Gymnast magazine sadly report Cheng Fei‘s run for a third Olympics ends w/ an Achilles tendon rupture 😦
It seems near inevitable that older female power gymnasts rupture an Achilles. She’s age-24.
Is there nothing we can do about it?
Bleacher Report’s London Summer Olympics 2012: Power Ranking World’s Top 10 Women’s Gymnasts had Cheng Fei at #10.
Oksana Chusovitina, soon turning age-37, tore her Achilles in 2009. And yet is planning to upgrade the difficulty of her Vaults for London. She’s training double twisting Tsukahara.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 