U.S. gymnast Jade Carey said she has been fighting an undisclosed illness in recent days,
citing the bug as the reason for her uncharacteristically poor performance on
floor exercise in Sunday's gymnastics qualifying round at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Carey, 24, told Olympics.com that she hasn't "been able to eat or anything"
over the past few days due to the illness and wanted to disclose the issue so fans didn't assume she was being affected by nerves.
USA Gymnastics had previously announced that her coach and father, Brian Carey,
missed the team's podium training Thursday because he was not feeling well.
"I had, like, no energy today and didn't really have a sense of what was going on in my head," Carey told Olympics.com.
"So, I just kind of wanted people to know that so, they know that there's actually something wrong."
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Carey and the other members of the U.S. women's gymnastics team did not stop to field questions from reporters in the mixed zone.