Kerri Strug injures ankle at 1996 Summer Olympics More than two decades ago, United States olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, like Biles, also badly injured her ankle during the vault competition at the ...

Kerri Strug under-rotated on her first attempt, injuring her ankle and leaving a score of 9.2 on the board, which, at the time, wasn't clear it would be enough to win gold.

Kerri Strug didn't have the agency to tap out in 1996 but we know that Biles has that agency now. She's pulled out when she needed to in the past.

When Simone Biles stunningly chose to withdraw from multiple events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, critics of her decision often contrasted her with another American gymnastics hero: Kerri Strug.

Thomasin McKenzie is going for the gold. The young star has signed on to play Olympic gold medalist Kerri Strug in the upcoming biopic “Perfect,” from director and exec. producer Olivia Wilde.

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well." – Baron Pierre de Coubertin, considered the father of ...

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 at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Kerri Strug, who made her Olympic debut at 14 in the 1992 Barcelona Games, is now 31 and has run four marathons and plans to run her first New York City Marathon on Nov. 2.

ATHENS, GREECE — The night was begging for a Kerri Strug kind of moment. We saw the classic confrontation and remarkable degrees of difficulty unfolding before us, and we cleared our mind's eye ...

Simone Biles' performance conjured up comparisons to Kerri Strug, the gymnast who won gold on a badly-injured ankle during the 1996 Summer Olympics.