MINNEAPOLIS — No person pictured Paris with out Shilese Jones.
Staff USA suffered a slew of devastating accidents in fast succession on the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, together with one that may take Jones out of the Paris Video games.
USA Gymnastics introduced Saturday that, after analysis, Jones is not going to be persevering with by way of to the ultimate day of trials Sunday, slashing her hopes of constructing the Paris crew.
Jones, a 21-year-old from Seattle, was a near-lock for the Olympic crew after profitable six world championship medals up to now two years.
Whereas warming up on the vault at Friday’s trials, Jones landed brief and instantly cradled her knee.
She is the third frontrunner for the Paris crew to undergo a season-ending harm this week in Minneapolis. Skye Blakely ruptured her Achilles in coaching on Wednesday and Kayla DiCello suffered the identical harm on the prime of Friday’s competitors.
Jones acquired medical consideration after her vault and was carried off the competitors flooring, however all gave the impression to be nicely when she re-entered the world. She tried one other warm-up vault, however balked, unable to finish her run.
Nonetheless, Jones rallied by way of seen grimaces of ache and hit her greatest occasion, the uneven bars. She earned the best rating of the evening with a 14.675.
Jones carried out a barely simpler routine than traditional, omitting a tough ability, a laid-out Jaeger, on the prime. The dismount was strong, however she limped off the ground after the affect to her injured knee.
After that routine, she scratched the remainder of the meet.
Jones additionally withdrew final month from the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Fort Value, nursing an unrelated shoulder harm. She filed a petition with USA Gymnastics to compete at trials, which was authorized.
In 2021, Jones simply missed the Tokyo Olympic crew, ending in tenth at trials. Later that yr she misplaced her father, who had inspired her to attempt as soon as extra for an Olympic berth.
Her solely all-around exhibiting this yr was the Core Hydration Traditional in Could, the place Jones solidified herself as Staff USA’s strongest asset behind Simone Biles, ending second within the all-around competitors and profitable the uneven bars.