Having actually not raced brief course triathlon given that the WTCS Finals in November 2022, concerns have actually been raised over whether ruling Olympic Champion Flora Duffy will be on the start line to safeguard her title in Paris this summertime.
Fighting a knee injury that had actually kept her sidelined for over a year, the Bermudian star shared that she will be back in 2024, with her brief course profession set to pertain to an end this season as she goes up to the T100 Triathlon World Tour in September.
Before that nevertheless, Duffy verified on the ‘Chasing the Burn’ podcast, that if her knee remains healthy, she will start her last WTCS season with races in Japan and Italy before settling her prepare for Paris.
“It was type of a catastrophe”
In a frank and sincere discussion about her injury, Duffy remembered how all of it began after the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, when she initially discovered a discomfort in her knee on a run back in Bermuda.
Plants Duffy Commonwealth Games flag [Photo credit: Ben Lumley / World Triathlon]
“My injury ended up being a lot even worse and a lot harder to recover and rehab than I had actually at first believed. It flared for the very first time after the Commonwealth Games in 2022.
“I was home in Bermuda after that running and my knee began troubling me, however many people didn’t believe it was much and I kept training on it, so it wasn’t up until after the PTO Dallas race that I recognized things weren’t terrific.
“It was verified by a medical professional here in Boulder that I had a partial patellar tendon tear therefore I right away had a PRP injection and continued with the rest of my season.
“My knee actually broke down in January 2023, and a scan exposed the partial tear in my patellar tendon however likewise a really bad looking tendon in basic, that was really close some cartilage damage and an oedema on my tendon and my fat pad.
“It was type of a catastrophe and recalling it is foolish to believe that a little rehabilitation and withdrawing training would recover my knee. Certainly it is actually simple to review things like that, however it has actually simply been a substantial puzzle and an extremely aggravating procedure to get healthy.”
“The last piece seemed like a wonder”
After things began to degrade at the start of 2023, Duffy stated that she wants she had actually done things in a different way, as it took an additional 6 months for her fortunes to lastly deviate.
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“Last January when I had the MRI, I remained in Stellenbosch at the time and desire I had actually simply gotten on an airplane and flew back to Boulder. I dealt with 2 medical professionals here this previous summertime and dream I had actually dealt with among them then and had a PRP injection at that time.
