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Audacius. when Kerri Strug took off down the runway late last Tuesday afternoon (real time), ignoring the intense pain in the left ankle she had badly sprained on her previous vault, she thought she needed to stick it in order to give the U.S. women the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition. She didn't even need to vault, as arithmetic turned out, but no matter. Strug did more than win a gold medal. She added another word to the Olympic credo: Citius, altius, fortius, audacius. Faster, higher, stronger, braver...
...boycotted 1984 games. "To win in Barcelona would have been marvelous. To do it at home is oh, so sweet." The gold seemed like a sure thing for the Americans until the final event, when 14-year-old Dominique Moceanu fell on consecutive vaults. Then up stepped Kerri Strug, who was the 14-year-old baby of the 1992 team. After injuring her ankle when she missed her first vault attempt, Strug took the long walk back down the runway, with the crowd roaring its support. Strug then calmly sprinted down the runway, cartwheeled onto the takeoff board, springing backward...
...could have denied the pass in to [Providence forwards Kerri Chatten and Nadine Malcom] better," Delaney-Smith said...
...crumble emotionally. Most of the top competitors at last week's National Gymnastics Championships in New Orleans' Superdome were sturdy, poised high-school graduates. Three were veterans of Olympic competition, Shannon Miller, 18, who placed second in the all-around competition; Dominique Dawes, 18, who came in fourth; and Kerri Strug, 17, who finished fifth. The intervening years have added height and weight to their frames and a maturity to their faces that lent new elegance and expressiveness to their performances. The only Lilliputian in the 38-woman field was 4 ft.-5 in., 70-lb. Dominique Moceanu, who finished...
...Greyhounds' first tally was a loose ball that happened to be picked up by Loyola's Kerri Johnson, who whipped it past the surprised Schutt only 37 seconds into the game...