In San Francisco journalist Joan Ryan's book, "Little Girls In Pretty Boxes," Karolyi was vilified for the way he treated several former young female gymnasts by wearing down their self-esteem, by calling them derogatory names, by making them compete with serious injuries and by forcing them to use laxatives to lose weight. Instead, he might have only verified what his critics have said: that he will do anything to win. USAs 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 womens team gymnastics competition, at the Centennial Summer. When she missed her first vault, falling back on her landing, her 9.162 wasn’t the only worry she had also seriously injured her left ankle. coaches and team believed it all came down to Kerri Strug. Kerri Strug shares her support for Simone Biles and rest of USA gymnasts Strug famously completed a vault on a broken ankle to help Team USA win gold at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. After Dominique Moceanu’s uncharacteristic miss on vault, the U.S. The belief here is that Karolyi was trying to raise Strug's already heroic status. The Russians were concluding on floor exercise, the Americans on vault. The tape of the NBC broadcast showed Strug barely within earshot of Karolyi in an arena filled with 35,400 screaming fans. Whether this dialogue actually took place, or whether Karolyi was trying it out on a receptive audience and plans to put it in his next book, is up for debate. And he got what he wanted a gold medal that was more important to him than his athletes health. "Can you, can you?" Karolyi wanted to know. Instead, Bela Karolyi told Strug to vault again. "Do I have to do this again?" Strug asked. "We got to go one more time," Karolyi said.
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