Do you notice something? No wokeness here. All standing proud for USA. High emotions. Real talent and athletics. Current athletes should watch this feed. These are real Americans. Real girls 🇺🇲🇺🇸👍🤟🤘✌️ USA
I remember it well…. I was fixated and proud to be an American! I have two words for those multi-million dollar athletes who won’t play when they’re hurt: Kerri Strug!
I walked around on my broken ankle for an hour one night and I was limping the whole time, and as a former gymnast I couldn’t even imagine competing with an injury like that
I remember when most who lived here still loved this country. Lies have caused people to hate. We now hate ourselves. We are collapsing and imploding on ourselves
Bela Karolyi got away with a lot just by being really large and having that huge, loud personality. Keri was meant to stay on the stretcher, and Bela didn’t even have authorization to be on the floor; he certainly wasn’t allowed to parade with the girls. But he just went over and grabbed her so she could have her medal ceremony experience with the team. She absolutely deserved it. Karolyi put the girls he trained through hell and it’s absolutely not okay, but in that moment I think he did the right thing for her. (And, of course, it got his picture into every newspaper in the world the next day. I’m sure he was pleased about that, but I honestly don’t think that was his motive.)
Bela, you always want to be the center of attention. It's not about you, it's about the athletes, specially when they are so young. Bela get out of the picture, and don't hot dog it every chance you get. Shame on you.
She seems very sad in this… which I never quite realized before. Lost in time and space, unfocused in the moment the national anthem is playing and going in and out of recalling the words. As we all know this catastrophic injury ended her gymnastics career at age 18 (moderate sprain my ass). To be honest all I can think of that she might be feeling up on that podium is that this moment of Olympic gold and glory did not manifest the way she thought it would. It was supposed to be triumphant. And while she demonstrated incredible feats of heroics, somehow she looks broken. Both physically and emotionally. The distress of the moment - the one in which she knows she must perform superhumanly despite being being hurt, unable to escape or shrink back from the pressure of the world and the fate of her teammates and coaches’ lifelong dreams riding on her - to have everything come crashing down and the only choice being to destroy every part of yourself (physical, mental, emotional) just to save yourself from the failure. Talk about traumatic. That ordeal must have blacked her out in some ways for the rest of that night. She seems to be both numb and holding back tears. Poor Kerri. A true hero she was though. I’m very sad to see it came at her future’s expense.
I remembered in 1993 or 1994 I cracked my tibia in a car accident. In 1995 to 1996 I was in 6th grade going to 7th grade. And today now I'm not in school anymore I work the overnight and watching the Magnificent 7 get the gold back in 1996 on RU-vid brings me tears to my eyes even when seeing Kerry Strugs made me think about how I felt when I hurt my leg in the car accident back when I was in 4th grade
Was emotional watching this at the age of 12 and now 25 years later I cry even more. The guts and tenacity of Kerri!! The first US gymnastics team to win gold is monumental. My most fave olympic moment 🇺🇲
I remember seeing this when I was stationed in Kitzingen Germany, we were up like 2 or 3 in the morning to watch this, talk about american soldiers celebrating... She gets the ultimate props
I’ll never forget this moment it’s was a month before my 18th birthday and senior year of high school it was incredible moment to watch on television that night something I’ll forever and always remember they where my inspiration I absolutely loved this team and still do
I watched this last night because I DvR it off the Olympic channel so many memories of that night and I still won’t ever forget it that team was special my dream is to meet Jaycie Phelps when this corona virus 🦠 pandemic is lifted. And there are no restrictions
