- Olympic gymnast Jade Carey and her mom opened up about her health after the 24-year-old fell during her qualifying floor routine at the Paris Games.
- “I just have not been feeling well the past few days,” she said.
- She redeemed herself on vault, and her mom shared how she’s feeling now.
Olympics fans are wondering what’s going on with Jade Carey after the Team USA gymnast fell while completing her floor routine during Sunday’s qualification round in Paris. In a follow-up interview with Olympics.com, Carey explained that she has “not been feeling well.”
“I just have not been feeling well the past few days and haven’t been able to eat or anything,” the 24-year-old said, clarifying that it wasn’t simply nerves that affected her performance. “I had, like, no energy today and didn’t really have a sense of what was going on in my head. So, I just kind of wanted people to know that so, they know that there’s actually something wrong.”
Carey didn’t state a specific illness, but Olympics.com did report that her father and coach, Brian Carey, missed Team USA’s July 25 practice because he was feeling under the weather.
On Monday morning, the day after Carey’s fall—which pushed her onto her back and out of bounds at the end of her number after she had already stumbled out of bounds twice—her mom gave Today an update on her condition. “She’s doing much better today,” Danielle Greenberg said. “Trying to hydrate, get some food in, ready to go.”
Following the incident, Carey took to social media to thank fans for their support and understanding. It was a tough situation to shake, considering she won gold for her floor routine in 2021 in Tokyo, but she did so triumphantly. “I haven’t been feeling the best the past few days but I gave it everything I had today,” she wrote on X. “thank you for all the support I have received. I’m so grateful.”
She may have lost her chance to defend her reigning floor title, but Carey did go on to redeem herself on vault later that day, earning an average score of 14.433, which should carry her through to the finals, given that her health continues to improve.
Good luck to Carey and the rest of Team USA!
Kayla Blanton is a freelance writer-editor who covers health, nutrition, and lifestyle topics for various publications including Prevention, Everyday Health, SELF, People, and more. She’s always open to conversations about fueling up with flavorful dishes, busting beauty standards, and finding new, gentle ways to care for our bodies. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University with specializations in women, gender, and sexuality studies and public health, and is a born-and-raised midwesterner living in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two spoiled kitties.
