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Alison Gibson<\/strong>\u00a0is leaving the\u00a02024 Olympics<\/a>\u00a0with her head held high.<\/p>\n The Team USA diver shocked crowds during the women’s 3-meter springboard competition in Paris on Aug. 7 when she slammed her feet on the springboard\u00a0mid-flip during her first dive.<\/p>\n The\u00a0mistake\u00a0prompted a penalty for Alison, registering her performance as a non-dive and earning her a score of 0.0. The 25-year-old continued the competition with her four remaining dives, but ultimately finished 28th out of the 28 athletes. Still, she is not letting the loss taint her time at the Olympics.<\/p>\n “Our worth is not defined by one painful moment,”\u00a0Alison\u00a0wrote on\u00a0Instagram Aug. 8<\/a>. “I am who I am because of the journey it took to get here. And I will not let the shame and pain of this moment define me and my worth.”<\/p>\n She\u00a0shared the messaged alongside a video of her\u00a0mishap, adding, “In my 15 years diving, this has never\u00a0happened\u00a0to me. My feet were bleeding. My heels were painfully bruised from hitting the board.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n