Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke is sharing a message of resilience after getting injured mid-race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.“Not the Olympics I had dreamed of. Unfortunately I fully ruptured my hamstring tendon in my heat, causing me to hit a hurdle and take a big fall,” Jenneke wrote on X after her second race.“Today was about not giving up & leaving no stone unturned. I gave it my all and honoured to now call myself a two time Olympian.”The 31-year-old athlete, who has gone viral for her pre-race dancing warm-ups, fell on a hurdle and crashed to the ground during the women’s 100-meter hurdles race on Aug. 7. She scrambled to get up and slowly finished the race.Because she crossed the finish line, Jenneke was able to avoid a result of DNF, or did not finish, which would have rendered her ineligible for the race’s repechage round.The repechage round is a new addition to some track and field events at this year’s Olympics. The round offers runners and hurdlers who didn’t automatically qualify for the semifinals during their first rounds a second chance to advance. Jenneke, who made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, was back on the starting line again on Aug. 8 despite undergoing medical tests that showed she’d ruptured her hamstring tendon during Wednesday’s race.“I got out really well and then I just felt something pop in my lead leg down towards my knee and so I lost all power,” Jenneke said of her fall while speaking to the media after her second race, according to the official Olympics website. “I wanted to make sure I got up and finished,” she added.Despite running with an injury during the repechage round, Jenneke clocked a time of 13.86 seconds, shaving a full seven seconds off her first race’s results.“I ran today with one less hamstring than usual and obviously that was pretty difficult, but … I said to the doctor, ‘Can I still run?’” said Jenneke.“It’s the Olympics and you do everything you can to show up on that start line,” she added.Jenneke said she knew that running with an injury would slow her down but it was important for her to show her “grit.”“I knew that making that semifinal and running under 13 seconds missing one of your hamstrings is probably pretty impossible but I wanted to prove to myself and the rest of Australia that I have got grit in me and I’m not going to give up easily,” she said.Though she didn’t qualify for the semifinals, Jenneke said was thrilled to have made it to the 2024 Summer Games. “I stood out there and I was soaking it all in and I was having a great time despite everything that was going on with my body,” she said. Peacock is streaming the Paris Olympics around the clock. Learn more about accounts here. TODAY earns a commission on purchases. Peacock is owned by our parent company NBCUniversal.
