Jason Burnett is fine. Really, he’s good. Never mind the metal plates in his right leg. Or the screws holding them in place. Or his bandaged left foot, wracked by plantar fasciitis, which aches every time his weight bears down on a trampoline. “I have pain throughout the day,” said Mr. Burnett, 25, an Olympic [...]
Jason Burnett catches his breath as he climbs off the trampoline after completing a training routine full of astonishing flips and twists upwards of 20 feet in the air. The Olympian walks directly to a TV screen and plays back video of his performance, scrutinizing every millisecond. Propelling oneself to such extreme heights and breathtaking [...]
Jason Burnett’s Olympic dream has always had three parts. So, when the 25-year-old trampoline silver medallist at the Beijing Games had a devastating leg injury in the summer of 2010, his thoughts were not of retiring — “No, never,” — but of bouncing back to be a threat in London. And, after London, the focus [...]