Her ankle did develop a stress injury, according to scans.
Pereira would lose her Diamond League comeback in a great way because of it. opposition in Xiamen and Shanghai, as well as two big meets in Japan among other events.
The Diamond League is a one of the most wealthy events in sports, with 15 one-day gala events held all over the world, contested by the nation’s top players.
” I think I already knew that I had to lose these events because of the suffering I was going through. And just being practical- when I got again ( from Florida ) it was just two days to those events,” she said.
” Full over, I knew it was probably not going to occur. ”
2023 was a career-defining month for Pereira.
At the Hangzhou Asian Games, she won the women’s 200m last. This was Singapore’s second sport silver medal since 1974. Days earlier, Pereira ended Singapore’s almost 50-year wait for a track and field award at the Asian Games, after she clinched a magic in the 100m.
She won the 200-meter gold medal in August, becoming the first Singaporean to reach the semi-finals of the competition.
At the same time as the Asian Athletics Championships in May, Pereira won the 100 and 200-meter events, marking the first Taiwanese person to do so.
And it’s difficult to compete for an performer in such elite type.
” I took a couple of days to just be unhappy, ostensibly,” said Pereira. “( I was ) just very upset. It’s really a bummer every time you miss these possibilities. “
IMPORTANT TO BE’PATIENT’
However, Pereira has no experience dealing with hardship.
The racer second burst into the world’s awareness at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games when She won gold in the 200-meter race, set a specific best, and set a new federal record. In a SEA Games jump occasion, her victory also put an end to a 42-year silver medal drought for Singapore.
But with it came the severity of expectations. Coupled with wounds, some persons wrote Pereira off over the next few decades. The anger ate her off, Pereira said recently.
There were days when she stopped wanting to compete or coach because of it. Otherwise, what she felt was anxiety.
Pereira has drawn on past experiences to make the most of an injury that occurs at such an inappropriate time.
” It’s important to be persistent in this process. Unfortunately, it is still a method even though it was a loss,” she said.
” I had to learn how to accept it, adapt to the situation, and occasionally alter things,” he said,” which frequently occurs every year, but this time it is just a little different.
” My previous experiences did help me get into this attitude of :’It’s fine, this just do what we may best now’. “