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- Livvy Dunne opens up on painful ankle injury that ended Olympic dreams</p>
<p>Scooby Axson, USA TODAY July 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM</p>
<p>Former LSU gymnast Livvy Dunne says that an ankle injury derailed her chances at competing for the United States at the Olympics.</p>
<p>Dunne did compete for Team USA and made the junior national team, but when she was 16, she says an ankle injury called osteochondritis dissecans put those dreams on hold.</p>
<p>Osteochondritis dissecans causes the bone underneath the cartilage of a joint to fail because of a lack of blood flow and can hinder joint motion.</p>
<p>"I was actually competing on a hurt ankle at the 2018 USA Championships and, yeah, part of my ankle bone died. Dunne said on the podcast, "What's Your Story? With Stephanie McMahon."</p>
<p>"Yeah, it just died. So, my Olympic dreams died with it," she said. "It kind of healed a little bit. It stopped bothering me. I went to college after that, but it was so painful. That was kind of my first real injuries.</p>
<p>"I've actually never gotten any surgery, which is kind of crazy for a gymnast. And I was like, I think if I just give myself time to heal, I can heal without surgery. But that's something I take pride in. I have never needed surgery as a gymnast, which is very uncommon."</p>
<p>After helping the Tigers win the school's first-ever gymnastics national championship in 2024, Dunne, now 22, was limited by injuries in her final collegiate season before announcing her retirement from the sport in April.</p>
<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Livvy Dunne says painful ankle injury ended her Olympic dreams</p>
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