Sallsabilah's Injury No Sign Of Improvement Ahead Of The 2024 Olympics

Rajiah Sallsabillah is still battling injury before appearing at the 2024 Paris Olympics (Instagram/@rajiahsallsabillah).

JAKARTA The injury from rock climbing athlete Rajiah Sallsabillah has not shown any signs of improving at all ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which is only a matter of days.

Injuries to hernia nuclei pulposus (HNP) or nerves have been pinched in the spine of the dolphin since 2022 and until now the athlete is still feeling pain.

"However, the match is still enthusiastic. It must be even stronger. There are doctors from the team. So far we have always consulted," said the athlete who is familiarly called If that.

The injury resulted in the management of the Indonesian Rock Climbing Federation (FPTI) allocating an official accreditation to doctors. The doctor will have a special task to assist if in Paris.

FPTI has so far only tried in such a way that if they feel they are not too sick during training or racing. The reason is, other actions such as surgery or treatment cannot be done.

The federation is concerned that if the athlete is operated, the time needed for recovery is not possible. Meanwhile, taking drugs can have an impact on failing a doping test.

Yenny Wahid, Chairman of the FPTI, said that the pain actually shows the level of professionalism of a person If. Even though there is pain, the athlete's mental condition to struggle is extraordinary.

"That is one of the criteria for the world's elite athletes. He shows that he deserves to be at that level because he is mentally resilient, not just physical," said the daughter of former president Abdurrahman Wahid.

Sallsabillah is one of four Indonesian rock climbing athletes who will appear in Paris later. The other three who qualified with him were Desak Made Rita Kusuma, Rahmad Adi Mulyono, and Veddriq Leonardo.

The four rock climbing athletes will both appear in the men's and women's speed numbers. Previously, this number was not competed in the Tokyo edition of the Olympics in 2021.

The presence of this speed number makes the total number of medals for rock climbing also increase. From the two medals at the Tokyo Olympics to four in Paris, which took place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.

A significant increase also occurred in the number of rock climbing athletes who participated. While in Tokyo, rock climbing was only attended by 40 athletes, while in Paris there were 68 athletes.