Jazmin Sawyers: Long jumper delighted to return after 20-month absence

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“It will be a long path, but I am ready to work hard,” Jazmin Jazmin said of Great Britain, when Sharing the painful newsexternal Or its Achilles rupture last April.

The injury, which ruled out from the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, occurred just over a year after its best time in sport to date.

His ecstatic celebrations produced memorable images when he won the European 2023 interior title, jumping an interior record of the United Kingdom of 7.00 meters in the process.

The 31 -year -old finally competed again this month after an absence of 20 months, jumping at 6.53m at the international grocery meeting of Loughborough.

“He felt so, so well. I was more nervous than I can remember Bee for a competition,” Sawyers told BBC Radio Stoke.

“My heart rate was high all day. From the moment I woke up, I could be calm.

“But, just to return and still feel like me, to jump a type of distance I have opened in any other normal season, I am very happy,” he added.

Sawyers, finalist in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, reached a third Olympic Games, last summer, but as a television commentator for the BBC.

While their enthusiasm and experience together with regular taxpayers such as Steve Backley and Jeanette Kwakye won great praise, it certainly was not their first choice role.

She wrote on her Instagram after the games: “I am sure I won a Board in Los Angeles in four years. Real I have more than I would like to do.”

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