Team USA diver Alison Gibson is leaving the Paris Olympics along with her head held excessive.

Gibson shocked the gang on the ladies’s 3-meter springboard competitors on Wednesday, Aug. 7, when her first dive within the preliminary spherical went awry, inflicting her to slam her ft on the springboard mid-somersault.

The mistake prompted a penalty for the 25-year-old, in addition to an audible gasp from the gang, registering her efficiency as a non-dive and incomes her a rating of 0.0. Despite the painful error, she carried on and accomplished her remaining 4 dives, finally ending twenty eighth out of 28 athletes.

“Our worth is not defined by one painful moment,” Gibson wrote on Instagram submit on Aug. 8. “I am who I am because of the journey it took to get here. And I will not let the shame and pain of this moment define me and my worth.”

Gibson continued, stating that whereas her dive may seem to be “an embarrassing failure” to these on the skin, she noticed it as something however and hoped that her perseverance would encourage others to maintain going “even when you fall short.”

“This was far from the outcome I wanted, but I fought with everything I had to represent my country as well as I could, and I’m proud of that.”

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A troublesome second for Alison Gibson as her ft strike the board on the way in which down. #Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/jdXFwTKcVh

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She shared the message alongside a video of her mishap, including, “In my 15 years diving, this has never happened to me,” and, on high of the disappointing rating, the incident was additionally bodily taxing.

“My feet were bleeding, my heels were painfully bruised from hitting the board, and everyone on the pool deck thought I was going to scratch. But I didn’t scratch. I kept my chin up and kept fighting until the end of that event,” she narrated in a voiceover.

Gibson detailed her damage to NBC News, saying that she has “cuts along the sides” of her limbs as a result of she hit her heels and ft on the board. “I bruised my right heel pretty badly, but I was determined to keep going,” she defined.

Though she famous that her “heart and body hurt,” Gibson reemphasized her highly effective message: “If you have a moment when you feel like all is lost, don’t give up hope. You are beautifully and wonderfully made.”

Gibson made her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2021, ending final within the occasion. After briefly retiring for 2 years, telling the Austin American-Statesman that Tokyo was a “gut-wrenching experience,” she finally got here out of retirement in the summertime of 2023 to offer Paris one other strive.

The athlete exemplified fantastically that when incidents occur that appear like a failure, nothing is ever really a failure when you find yourself constructing towards one thing.