She clings to her dream. Victim of an open fracture of the talus, a bone in the ankle, on March 2 in the final of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow (Scotland), pole vaulter Margot Chevrier remains hopeful of being at the Stade de France on August 5 for pole vault qualifications. The three-time French champion spoke about her daily life since her injury to The Mag Team. A life punctuated by physiotherapy sessions, recovery and muscle strengthening exercises.
“I have the impression that it will pass”
“ I’m in medicine (5e year), I know it may not work, poses the 24-year-old from Nice, qualified thanks to its 14e place on 24 in the World Athletics ranking list. What is certain is that I will have nothing to regret. (…) But if there is a 1% chance that I will be there, I have to rush into that percentage. (…) We proceed step by step. When the time comes to think, we will. I spend 1h30 in physiotherapy every day. I can stand longer and longer. It goes really fast. Basically, the predictions with this injury are 0% chance of making the Olympics but for someone classic.” If his surgeon first told him that one day he would return to the pole “would already be a victory”, he has since changed his mind. “We have to be lucid. It remains a more than tense bet, adds the licensee of Nice Côte d’Azur Athlétisme, who started walking in a swimming pool. But today, I see myself more at the Games than not at the Games. I have a feeling it will pass.”
