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...dancers than tight end defenders. Since the 1980s, however, thanks in part to the growing number of injuries and the more challenging skills the gymnasts are trying on the mats, the sturdier bodies, like Johnson's, at 4'9", have been claiming more titles - think Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug, Shannon Miller, and 2004 Olympic all-around champion Patterson. These are powerful athletes who don't look as if they would snap with a wrong turn around the uneven bars. "Traditionally, the long and lean gymnasts have lost out to the more solid ones," says Bart Conner, 1984 Olympic gold...
...coach said she was "just a little girl," but on July 23, 1996, at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 4-ft. 9-in. gymnast Kerri Strug became a big hero. Despite a sprained ankle, she launched into one last vault and stuck her landing to win the U.S. women's gymnastics squad its first-ever team Olympic gold. A decade later, Strug, 28, thinks of that day "constantly," she says. "Atlanta changed my life." A Stanford grad, she works at the Justice Department in Washington, helping get federal funding for youth-oriented groups like Boys & Girls Clubs. She's still...
...mean, it really gave Annie a whole new lease on life. She’s made out like a bandit on this whole thing—selling her story to Current magazine and whatnot. She’s like the Keri Strug of the College Journalism December Dance-Off, which I think is great, just great, for her.” After forcing a seriously injured performer to compete in the 2005 College Journalism December Dance-Off, Fee and The Harvard Crimson’s Fifteen Minutes Magazine were permanently disqualified from all future competitions. However, The Crimson?...
...among the rarest of gold-medal winners because they have such staying power. Most Olympic moments have notoriously short shelf lives, which means athletes with breakout performances this summer will have literally only a couple of weeks to capitalize on the momentum. Some past Olympic surprises, like gymnast Kerri Strug and sprinter Flo-Jo, had agents who either waited too long to respond or held out for bigger deals that never materialized. "Six months after the Olympics, advertisers aren't even thinking about it anymore," says veteran talent broker Nova Lanktree. So forget about savoring the moment...
...implications of this would be staggering. Neither team has finished ahead of Harvard since 1996. For some perspective, President Clinton was still serving his first term in the White House that year, Kerri Strug made her famous vault on a bum ankle in Atlanta and Ted Kaczynski ’62 was arrested...