Olympics-Gymnastics-An Olympic curse for French athlete? There's always Paris

[ASFN Admin]

Nobody could blame French gymnast Samir Ait Said for feeling that the Olympics Games are cursed for him. Forced by a triple leg fracture to sit out the 2012 London Games, which he watched as a spectator, he was heading for redemption in Rio 2016 when a gruesome crash during a vault snapped both bones in his lower leg, leaving it looking "like rubber". Recovery from that took months, but Ait Said, now 31, eventually came to Tokyo as one of France's flag-bearers in the opening ceremony, determined to take a medal home from the rings competition - a promise to the memory of his father, who died in 2019.

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