What a disappointment for Thibaut Collet. The pole vaulter from Isère failed to qualify for the final of the pole vault competition this Saturday at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A bar of 5.80m was required to go through to the final, Collet failed three times at 5.75m.
“I am ashamed of myself”
As he left the jump, Thibaut Collet reacted to his poor performance: “It’s a nightmare at home. My body wasn’t responding at all. I’m ashamed of myself, of my performance. I want to bury myself in a hole. I put pressure on myself, it’s horrible.”
It is a huge disappointment for Thibaut Collet, the world’s third outdoor performer this season with a bar passed at 5.95 meters. A personal record achieved on June 19 at home in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin (Isère). “It’s a dream that’s crumbling. It was in Paris, at home. It’s a particular context. Thibaut suffered the event. We must have missed something, we will take the time to try to understand what happened. He did not manage to put himself in an automatic mode to do what he knows how to do right from the warm-up. Physically, he was prepared but he missed out because he suffered the event,” reacted his father and trainer Philippe Collet after the elimination.
The three French eliminated
The other Frenchmen competing in the pole vault, Robin Emig and Anthony Ammirati, were also eliminated. The former could only do one bar at 5.40 metres, the latter cleared 5.60 but had three failures at the next bar at 5.70 metres.
