How sad. She was quoted:
“It’s the end of gym, the end of the Olympics, the end of everything I had counted on. Everything collapses,” she told the paper.
Severino had been scheduled to carry the Olympic flame through her native Paris on Monday.
Isabelle is already a double Olympian for France, and had wanted to compete a third.
She had previously retired. Gone on to Pole Vaulting and Cirque du Soleil. Then made this brave comeback.
… Following France’s historic bronze medal at the European Championships Saturday, the team dedicated its podium presence to two-time Olympian Isabelle Severino, who suffered a torn Achilles Thursday at the competition in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
“We did this for her,” team member Cassy Véricel told newspaper L’Equipe. …
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