Brazilian Gymnast Competed With a Black Eye on the Olympics

Brazilian gymnast Flavia Saraiva helped the nation win its first-ever Olympic staff medal in ladies’s gymnastics on Tuesday—whereas sporting a black eye.

Just earlier than the ladies’s staff competitors on the Paris Summer Olympics started, Saraiva fell whereas warming up on the uneven bars. Photos confirmed the 24-year-old gymnast bleeding from a lower above her proper eye and sporting what seemed to be a black eye. But after receiving medical assist, she returned to the competitors carrying a bandage.

“I couldn’t see, it bled, however the staff’s physician instructed me all the pieces was all proper,” Saraiva mentioned, as reported by the Associated Press. “I imagine my knee hit my eye once I tripped. It’s not the primary time it occurs to me.”

“We are warriors,” she continued.

Saraiva went on to compete in all 4 occasions—uneven bars, steadiness beam, ground train, and vault—for the staff last.

“She’s robust,” NBC announcer Rich Lerner mentioned throughout the broadcast.

Fans agreed, with many taking to social media to applaud the gymnast for her willpower.

Saraiva beforehand competed within the Tokyo Summer Olympics held in 2021 and the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016.

Brazil earned the bronze medal for the ladies’s staff last on Tuesday, whereas Italy gained silver and the U.S. reclaimed gold.