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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
She sat out the rest of the year because of a broken foot. On July 25, 2009, at the Covergirl Classic in Des Moines, Iowa, Bross competed on the uneven bars, scoring a 13.150 (.050 better than her teammate Ivana Hong ), but she was unable to compete on floor, beam or vault because of an ankle injury suffered during practice a few days earlier.
In October 2010 he was part of the team which won the silver medal for England in the gymnastics in the men's artistic all-around team event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [1] In 2004, Jehu survived a 33-foot fall from a hotel window in Ljubljana, Slovenia by completing a mid-air loop and gymnasts' landing to escape with only a broken ankle ...
An epic floor routine from a UCLA female gymnast is going viral on social media. Nia Dennis, a 5-foot-1 senior gymnast from Columbus, Ohio, has gone viral on social media for her floor routines in ...
Gabby Douglas’ bid for a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics came to an end in May when she injured her ankle, but the gymnast is not giving up on her comeback dreams. “I do have [the Summer 2028 ...
Kerri Strug of the United States women's gymnastics team vaulted with an injured ankle and landed on one foot, winning the first women's team gold medal for the US. Shannon Miller won the gold medal on the balance beam event, the first time an American gymnast had won an individual gold medal in non-boycotted Olympic games.