Olympic Games in Rio, in 2016. While taking part in the vault qualifying, gymnast Samir Aït Saïd suffered a double open fracture of the tibia / fibula in his left leg.
The images, terrible and overwhelming at the same time, are unbearable.
Once again, fate shattered his Olympic dream, four years after the London Games he had missed due to an injury… to the shin.
In its place, many are the athletes who would have drawn the line on an event on the way to becoming a curse.
But not him.
From his hospital bed in the Carioca city, the gymnast had already announced his desire to come back even stronger to Tokyo in 2020. An exceptional resilience, which Aït Saïd perhaps draws from a difficult childhood ...
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