TOKYO —
Canada’s Rosie MacLennan was denied in her bid for an Olympic three-peat on Friday, settling for a fourth-place end within the girls’s trampoline on the Tokyo Video games.
“Clearly not fairly what I hoped for,” MacLennan stated. “I used to be actually hoping to have the chance to face on the rostrum for Canada once more. Clearly I did not fairly get there however I am so completely satisfied for the athletes who did.”
Xueying Zhu (56.635) and Lingling Liu (56.350) led a one-two China end. Britain’s Bryony Web page took the bronze with 55.735 factors, simply forward of MacLennan at 55.460.
MacLennan received Olympic gold on the 2012 Video games in London and defended her title 4 years later in Rio. However her problem and execution marks have been barely under the medallists on the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, stopping a 3rd straight journey to the Olympic podium.
The 32-year-old from Toronto was additionally in fourth place after the qualification spherical. Toronto’s Samantha Smith didn’t make the top-eight reduce after ending 14th within the 16-woman subject.
In Rio, MacLennan turned the one athlete to efficiently defend an Olympic trampoline title. She additionally turned the primary Canadian lady to win two gold medals in a person occasion on the Summer time Video games.
Her pre-Video games coaching was considerably hampered in 2016 resulting from accidents. However MacLennan nonetheless managed to ship a powerful last routine of twists, flips and jumps to take the gold in Rio.
Her lead-up to Tokyo adopted an analogous sample, however she could not duplicate the end result. She revealed Friday that she suffered an ankle harm after a “dangerous touchdown” in coaching 9 weeks in the past that compelled her to make use of crutches and a strolling boot.
MacLennan stated she fully tore “a number of ligaments,” partially tore one other and suffered a number of bone bruises. She was solely capable of full coaching routines for the primary time post-injury simply three weeks earlier than the Video games.
“The preparation wasn’t what I hoped for,” MacLennan stated. “I believe given the circumstances and with all of the assist of the individuals round me I used to be capable of do one thing (at this time) and make the ultimate.
“When you had informed me that six weeks in the past, I’d have been stoked. So it is bittersweet.”
MacLennan, who completed seventh in her Olympic debut in 2008 at Beijing, hoped to tie present nationwide workforce director Karen Cockburn as the one Canadian to win three trampoline medals on the Video games.
Trampolinists are scored on problem, execution, time of flight and horizontal displacement. Athletes need to discover a steadiness of problem and execution with out sacrificing top and mat placement.
MacLennan has stored pushing herself over time by experimenting with completely different talent orders and incorporating tougher parts. She received a world title in 2013 and took bronze in 2019.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 30, 2021.
