{"id":415046,"date":"2024-08-01T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415046"},"modified":"2024-08-01T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T22:07:21","slug":"brave-gymnast-competes-with-nasty-injury-after-heavy-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415046","title":{"rendered":"Brave gymnast competes with nasty injury after heavy fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite competing with a bandaged eyebrow just days after a nasty fall, Brazil&#x27;s Flavia Saraiva delivered an impressive performance, finishing in the top 10 of the artistic gymnastics all-around final on Friday (AEST).<\/p>\n<p>Saraiva almost didn&#x27;t make it to the final after she injured her right eye during warmup earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury, Saraiva placed ninth in the final, finishing with a score of 54.032\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIVE UPDATES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/olympics\/paris-2024-live-updates-day-six-latest-news-headlines-updates-highlights-tennis-swimming-hockey-20240801-p5jyi3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Follow all the action from day six<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/olympics\/paris-2024-simone-biles-revolutionised-gymnastics-20240718-p5jxdf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Simone Biles revolutionised gymnastics. This is how it happened<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/paris-2024-australia-sharks-shock-france-in-epic-water-polo-win\/f2c1f298-c689-4387-9a9a-4634fb424529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>&#x27;Big moment&#x27; as Aussies upset France in water polo thriller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"87cdb674-19c0-41bc-a369-9abec42484e8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/87cdb674-19c0-41bc-a369-9abec42484e8\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"3936\" data-height=\"2214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during warm-ups, moments before Saraiva and her team went on to clinch bronze in the women&#x27;s team all-around final on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I could not see, it bled, but the team&#x27;s doctor told me everything was all right,&quot; Saraiva told the Associated Press<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I believe my knee hit my eye when I tripped.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not the first time it happens to me. Maybe I will need some stitches.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/olympics\/paris-2024-american-simone-biles-claims-gold-in-artistic-gymnastics-allaround-final-20240802-p5jypg.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"&#x27;She is back&#x27;: Simone Biles claims another gold in individual all-round final\ufeff\"><strong>&#x27;She is back&#x27;: Simone Biles claims another gold in individual all-round final\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a bandage above her eye, Saraiva soldiered on.<\/p>\n<p>She later appeared at the all-around team finals with a bandage over her eye.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are warriors,&quot; Saraiva said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Reported with AP\ufeff<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch every moment, every medal of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 live and free on Channel 9 and<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.9now.com.au\/HmT3GkPX9Kb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>. Plus, every event ad-free and in 4K on<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/ephrqa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Despite competing with a bandaged eyebrow just days after a nasty fall, Brazil&#x27;s Flavia Saraiva delivered an impressive performance, finishing in the top 10 of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415046\" title=\"Brave gymnast competes with nasty injury after heavy fall\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":415049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415050,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415046\/revisions\/415050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/415049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}