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Asha Philip’s Olympic dream shattered

By Tom Knight

Last Updated: 12:21am GMT 14/11/2007

One of Britain’s brightest prospects will have to delay her dream of competing at the Olympics after injuring her knee in another sport.

Asha Philip, the first British woman to win a global 100metres title when she took the gold medal in 11.46sec at the World Youth Championships this summer, ruptured the cruciate ligament in her right knee competing in the team event at the recent Double-mini Trampoline World Championships in Quebec, Canada.
The 17-year-old Londoner underwent surgery and will be on crutches until another operation in six weeks’ time.

advertisementInstead of training through the winter at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in north London and looking forward to being selected for the sprint relay at next summer’s Olympics in Beijing, Philips will be concentrating on rehab and simply regaining her fitness.

She said: "I don’t know yet if I will have to miss out on competing next summer. Everything depends on how well my rehab goes, but my coach and I have talked about missing next year altogether.

“I’m still young. There’s still the London Olympics in 2012 so I’m not that bothered. It’s lucky that I did this now.”

‘Lucky’ is probably not the word being used at UK Athletics, where, on the same day that Philip was undergoing surgery, she was included among 67 youngsters on the World Class Development programme, which includes lottery funding and medical support for 2008.

Philip is a former world champion on the double-mini trampoline. It is a sport she has enjoyed since she was four years old. But, according to UK Athletics, it was understood the Quebec championships were going to be her final competition.

Philip’s athletics potential was underlined during the summer, when she also won gold in the 4 x 100m at the European Junior Championships and set a national under-17 100m record by clocking 11.37sec.

Three weeks ago, Philip, of the Newham and Essex Beagles club, was named the junior athlete of the year by the British Athletics Writers’ Association and she is among 10 nominees for the BBC’s annual Young Sports Personality award.

If Philip makes it to the short list of three, she will have to go to next month’s televised award ceremony in Birmingham on her crutches.

She said: “I’ll have to live with it.”

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Holy shit have you seen this incedent on youtube? Sickening.

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oh well doing hard sport like track and then this would take its toll, live and learn i guess.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dycClOlm01c

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Damn. I know people like to keep their athletes in multiple sports as youths but double mini trampoline? Might as well sign her up for ultimate fighting or have her do 7’ depth drops for GPP.

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Cor blimey…what kind of mad gymnastics/circus acrobatics is that!?:confused: Reminds me of the the trampoline dunk competitions you see on ESPN.

I thought she just jumped up and down and did twists and shit. I would have thought UKA would have stopped her from continuing in this sport seeing as she’s a ‘2012 hopeful’.

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She will have practice that dismount 100s of times with no problems as trampolining was her 1st sport from what the papers say. It’s terrible when something like this happens non the less.

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Poor kid, like TC says she’d done this hundreds of times before but it onlt takes one soft spot in the mat or maybe a momentary lapse in concentration and the forces overpower the bracing mechanisms.

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plenty of NFL’ers have come back from similar injuries and have been right as rain. Willis Mcghee, blowing 3/4 ligiments, Frank Gore haveing both knees cut on before he was 21, ect ect. As long as they don’t botch the procedure, she should be fine.

Also, if she shreded alot of the cartliage, it may be difficult for her to deal with the intendent forces and velocities of running and training for fast 100’s.

One last thing, it says something about a 2nd surgery, and generally the less you cut on something the better… so thats a bit concerning that they couldn’t fix it up the first time.