Kerri Strug landed a one-foot vault with an ankle injury at the 1996 Olympics—see how Strug now praises Simone Biles’ decision after her own tough vault.

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 ...

- Nino Leto/Mondadori Portfolio/Zuma Press Karolyi’s most iconic career moment may have come at the 1996 Olympics, when Kerri Strug fell and injured her ankle on her first vault in the team finals.

Tucsonan Kerri Strug, who became a global star by helping Team USA win the 1996 Olympic gymnastics gold medal, is 40 now, but continues to command an audience. She will ...

During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Kerri Strug of Team USA pushed through the pain to stick her final vault landing while battling an injured ankle. With the gold medal on the ...

That retirement was short-lived. Sometime between 1992 and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the pair returned as the coaches of Dominque Moceanu and Kerri Strug, who were both named to the women’s ...

Kerri Strug, whose vault at the 1996 Olympics clinched gold for the U.S. women's gymnastics team, on Tuesday marked Wednesday's 100-day countdown to the Beijing Games by sharing lessons with ...

Kerri Strug, 26, has gone from leotards and winning Olympic gold at 18 to business suits and the 9-to-5 bustle of a federal job in Washington."The Olympics, that's one of the greatest moments of ...

Kerri Strug, the heroine of the 1996 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team in Atlanta, is content just being one of thousands of interns who perform the menial tasks that keep government moving.