Just read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Mukhina

Keri Strug had already severely injured her back on a parallel bar fall a few years prior to this, requiring long term physical therapy, and had a severe injury to her stomach before that. This sport absolutely destroys body and mind as you reach higher levels.

Bela Karolyi is a crap human being. Always was.

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Competition should make you feel good, not like you came up short. If the award is more important than the joy of doing it, you’ve missed the point. I admire Biles for stepping back. Her winning the bronze gave her peace of mind about taking care of herself. It’s admirable when a young woman values herself above societal expectations.

Wtf is the purpose of a gold medal? Does it solve any problems at all? No all it is, is bragging rights. Like the US doesn’t flaunt enough we need a bunch of gold medals to say we’re better. It’s disgusting. My husband’s country of Morocco got their first gold medal in decades and they’re all so proud. The reaction is so different bc they don’t see it as something to brag about. The US is so gross when it comes to so many things olympics included.

I feel bad for people like this. I feel bad for anyone who is even the least bit competitive. In the family I married into there is a "battle" amongst the women to be "the best" as in. Best looking. Thinnest. Cleanest house. Best kids. It makes me puke. Because in a lot of cases if have something to prove then you already lost.

The entire Karolyi empire was the worst thing to ever happen to gymnasts and gymnastics. Shake it out? You can't shake out a shattered leg/ankle! And whats even more sickening is that she didn't even need to vault to win. Dont tell me he wasn't well aware of that fact. And then there's the photo op carrying her in his victory. Kudos to Simone Byles for looking after herself. She has a whole life to live after this. Make sure nothing happens so she will be able to live it to the fullest without a disastrous accident. People saying she's not tough enough. Oh yes she is! She's more than tough enough to blow off your selfish self centered BS judgements. Who the h€!! are you anyway in her life? News flash folks! The only words that matter are all the words of encouragement and love that have been sent her way. Go crawl back under.

In 2000, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. After graduation, Strug worked as an elementary school teacher at Tom Matsumoto Elementary School in San Jose, CA, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2003. She worked as a staff assistant with the White House Office of Presidential Student Correspondence, moved to a job at the General Counsel in the Treasury Department, and in March 2005, joined the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention staff as a presidential appointee. Strug has also been an active marathon runner, having run marathons in Houston, New York, Boston and Chicago. During the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Strug was a correspondent for Yahoo! in artistic gymnastics. In 2008, she appeared in a television commercial for the Zaxby's restaurant chain. Also in 2008, her history-making ordeal at the 1996 Olympic games was featured in a commercial, narrated by actor Morgan Freeman for the "Go World" campaign.

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so you're saying that after training her whole life, for something she's truly passionate about, and when having her 30 seconds shot at immortality she would have forgiven her trainer for not pushing her to get it done and effectively robbing her of the results of a life's work? it seems to me that you are looking at the situation from a father's perspective, but not from the perspective that matters most - the athlete's.