Juliette Bossu of France has announced her retirement today. Bossu competed for France at both the 2018 European Championships, where she helped her team take the silver, and at the 2018 World Championships.
Bossu has been limited to training only uneven bars due to her knee injury but still won gold on the event at the French Championships in June with 14.400. In an interview with the French Gymnastics Federation, Bossu said she hasn’t been invited to national team camps in Barcelona and Houston and was not training with the prospective Tokyo gymnasts. She explained that she really wanted to add more events but her injury made it impossible:
“I actually tried to come back on more apparatuses, but my knees are not cooperating. For a year and a half or two years, I got up in the morning and my knee hurt. I could not walk or climb stairs properly. As soon as I did a pass on floor, my pain was so strong that I cried. It was the hardest time of my life. And I did not want to relive those years anymore. So I decided not to come back on vault, beam, or floor.”
Bossu said she is not closing the door completely and might start gymnastics again in the future if she feels like it but needs to take a brak right now,
She is also interested in competing at NCAA but said that with only one event, she isn’t very likely to get a scholarship, although she is checking her options.