The 26-year-old Commonwealth Games gold medallist said she was meeting with a surgeon to determine what comes next.
“Hey everyone,this is definitely not the news I want to be sharing with you all right now – a couple of days out from nationals,less than 80 days from Paris,” Godwin said
“I’ve sustained an Achilles injury. It’s extremely heartbreaking. It’s not ideal. I’m looking forward to the next few steps.
“I’ll be heading back to Brisbane,having a chat with the surgeon. We’ll just see where we go from there.
“I’m not entirely sure what the recovery process looks like moving forward,but I’ve got an amazing team around me and trying to be as positive as possible. I’ll need a bit of time to process everything.”
Georgia Godwin at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.Getty
Godwin,who entered the video on crutches,didn’t say how long the expected return to sport would be,nor whether she would recover in time for the Olympics in Paris,but said it would be a long recovery.
“It’s still very fresh + I’m a little lost but trying to keep it real and show all sides of sport (even the sad,vulnerable&uncomfortable side,” she wrote in the video caption.
“It’s a long recovery,but I’ve got amazing people around me,and I’m ready to tackle it all step by step ... once I’ve been given the all clear to weight bear.”
Gymnastics Australia described Godwin’s injury,as “serious” and said it “ends her hopes of competing at a second Olympic Games”.
Godwin,a seven-time national champion,helped Australia qualify a team quota for the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade.
She competed at her first Olympic Games in Tokyo and is a two-time World Cup silver medallist.
Just last year she joined an elite band of gymnasts with a signature move being named after her. She is just the fifth Australian to have an original skill named after her in the International Gymnastic Federation’s (FIG) code of points for ‘The Godwin’,which is performed on the uneven bars.
Godwin’s injury comes after fellow gymnast Blake Rutherford – Australia’s top-ranked male trampoline athlete – also suffered an injury at training.
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