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Yulimar Rojas, the reigning Olympic women's triple jump champion, has announced that she will miss Paris 2024 due to an Achilles tendon injury.

The Venezuelan athlete posted to Facebook that 'my heart is broken' as she will not be able to defend the crown she won in Tokyo three years ago.

She broke the women’s triple jump world record and became the first female athlete from Venezuela to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.

Rojas said that during a jump in a training session in Spain 'I felt an intense pain, which has been diagnosed as an injury to the left Achilles tendon'. 

She underwent surgery in Madrid to repair the tendon, and shared a picture of herself in a hospital bed.