July 23, 1996, was a banner day in U.S. gymnastics history. It was the day an injured Kerri Strug landed a most improbable vault to earn the American squad its first team gold medal at an Olympic ...

ATLANTA – JULY 23: Kerri Strug of the United States hurls herself down the runway while competing in the vault, part of the Womens Team Gymnastics competition at the 1996 Olympic Games on July ...

You’ve probably heard of Kerri Strug. If you haven’t, you know the story of her vault at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta: Strug, then 18, injured her ankle badly on her first vault, then ...

I first heard the name Kerri Strug in 1989. UA gymnastics coach Jim Gault, who was Kerri’s teacher for six formative years, had flown with the 11-year-old gymnast to a summer competition in Europe.

ATLANTA – JULY 23: Kerri Strug of the United States hurls herself down the runway while competing in the vault, part of the Womens Team Gymnastics competition at the 1996 Olympic Games on July ...

Kerri Strug thought the gold medal in the Olympic women’s team gymnastics competition depended on her, and if that later proved to be statistically incorrect, it made no difference, not with the ...

Kerri Strug is standing at the end of the vault runway, pumping her foot, clearly injured. From the sidelines, her coach, Bela Karolyi, yells, "You can do it!" in his deep Romanian accent.

Kerri Strug was 18 years old when she made history for her heroic vault that won the U.S. gymnastics team gold at the 1996 Olympics.

Simone Biles's decision to step back from competition and focus on her mental health after her vault went awry at the Tokyo Olympics has brought a new focus on gymnast Kerri Strug's gold medal ...

ATLANTA – JULY 23: Kerri Strug of the United States hurls herself down the runway while competing in the vault, part of the Womens Team Gymnastics competition at the 1996 Olympic Games on July ...