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Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Strug performed the vault that clinched the gold for the U.S. team despite having injured ...
McKayla Rose Maroney (born December 9, 1995) is an American retired [3] artistic gymnast.She was a member of the American women's gymnastics team dubbed the Fierce Five at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the team and an individual silver medal in the vault event.
Strug vaulted next as the anchor of the team and performed the same vault as Moceanu, also falling backward onto the mat. Upon standing up, it became apparent that Strug had suffered an injury to her ankle. As it was unknown to the team that they had already secured the gold medal, Strug was encouraged by her coach, Béla Károlyi, to vault ...
The 21-year-old gymnast is a favorite to compete with Team USA this summer at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. ... Shilese was hit during a bad car accident, which broke her ankle and her back, ...
Chow has two gymnastics skills named after her on the uneven bars: the "Chow/Khorkina" (stalder 1½ pirouette) and the "Chow II" (stalder to Shaposhnikova). [13] She was nicknamed "the Trickster" within the gymnastics community for her extreme difficulty on each apparatus and her ability to perform complicated skills with apparent ease. [ 13 ]
Jocelyn Moore’s career started with a pair of broken lamps and a shattered glass table. The Missouri gymnastics star, 7 years old at the time, had been going to recreational classes, joined a ...
Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images Gabby Douglas’ improbable bid for a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics officially came to an end on Wednesday, May 29, when the gymnast withdrew from the U.S ...
She is regarded by some gymnastics fans as "one of the most unfortunate and unluckiest gymnasts" because of the injuries she suffered. In the four-year period from 2008 to 2012, she incurred four injuries, including a broken foot, dislocated knee and other ankle and knee injuries that could have been serious.