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British agelong jumper Jazmin Sawyers will miss this summer's Paris Olympics because of a ruptured Achilles.
The 29-year-old confirmed connected Instagram connected Thursday she had undergone a successful cognition connected her take-off leg.
Sawyers won her first awesome agelong jump title astatine nan European Indoor Championships successful 2023.
"It's bad, but I americium looking up to rehab, betterment and nan future," Sawyers said.
"Obviously I'm devastated. I really thought this was going to beryllium my year."
The Olympics will return spot from 26 July to 11 August.
Sawyers was not considered arsenic a Team GB badge dream for Paris 2024, having grounded to suffice for nan agelong jump last astatine past summer's World Athletics Championships.
She competed astatine Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, finishing eighth connected some occasions.
A Commonwealth Games metallic medallist successful 2014, Sawyers besides won metallic astatine nan 2016 European Championships, while she claimed bronze successful nan aforesaid arena six years later.
