Vu Thi Huong suffered a serious injury in Germany: Risk of losing everything

According to information from the German athletics team, after finishing the Borsig athletics tournament on June 11 with a silver medal, Vu Thi Huong suffered a recurrence of a muscle strain injury.

With this injury, Huong has lost her chance to participate in the Asian Championships in Japan next July. Coach Nguyen Dinh Minh in Germany also reported this incident to the leaders of the General Department of Sports and Physical Training and the Vietnam Athletics Federation, and at the same time, asked to postpone Vu Thi Huong's plan to participate in the Asian Championships.

Thus, with Vu Thi Huong's unexpected injury, the plan to qualify for the 2012 Olympics through the main entrance has undergone major changes. The Asian Championship is one of the key tournaments for the athletics team to qualify for the Olympics. Not only that, the Asian Championship also counts as a qualifying point for the World Championship, a tournament that also serves as a qualifying round for the 2012 Olympics. With the cancellation of the Asian Championship, Vu Thi Huong's last chance this year to qualify for the Olympics is only the 26th SEA Games.

With the cancellation of the Asian Championship, Vu Thi Huong's (right) last chance this year to qualify for the Olympics is only the 26th SEA Games. Photo: TL

With the severity of Huong's injury, if treated well, she will be able to recover before the 26th SEA Games. However, Huong will almost have to start from scratch and clearly, skipping many tournaments to win tickets to the Olympics this year will make the task at the SEA Games become more difficult.

In fact, in 2012, there will also be some tournaments before July that year that are similar to the 2012 Olympic qualifiers. However, all of Huong's plans are aimed at this year's selection tournaments. The most regrettable thing is that Huong had the opportunity to conquer the Olympic ticket for the first time through the main door, if she had participated in the Grand Prix in early May. However, because she trusted too much in the plan of the German experts (in fact, she had to follow it), Huong skipped this tournament, a tournament that was within her ability and had a lot of prize money.

Never before has Huong and the Athletics Team been invested so fiercely as this year, but it seems that the training plan to help Huong gain momentum in performance has not been carefully considered in many factors. That may cause Huong to face the risk of losing everything this year.

According to TT&VH