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 ...

Then Kerri Strug not only sat her first vault, but injured her ankle on it. The Russians were rocking the floor exercise, and the U.S. team saw their gold medal slipping away.

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 performed her second vault anyway, and ...

Strug won a team bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics but the greater story was that she was burned out by Karolyi’s manipulative nature and his immoderate demands. She left Karolyi, left ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. women's gymnastic's team needed one more vault from Kerri Strug, who had badly injured herself in her first vault, in what would later be diagnosed as a severe sprain and two torn ligaments.

USA’s Kerri Strug is carried by her coach, Bela Karolyi, as she waves to the crowd on her way to receiving her gold medal for the women’s team gymnastics competition.

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.

She performed her second vault injured, stuck the landing and helped Team USA clinch its first-ever team gold medal in women's gymnastics. "Kerri Strug played through the pain and won gold.

TOKYO, Japan — It's an iconic Olympic moment that is now back in the spotlight over two decades later — when two-time Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug competed in Atlanta for the 1996 Olympic Games ...