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Remember When Kerri Strug Competed With A Broken Ankle? It ...  Aug 10, 2016 ... But then it was time for the vault, and Dominique Moceanu, one of the top ... Her score was so low that the lead of the American team was then in doubt. ... Moceanu didn't. ... She quickly raised her injured ankle behind her. She turned to face the judges, and then fell on her knees, the pain too great.
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What Really Happened Before and After Kerri Strug's Famous Vault  Jul 28, 2016 ... Strug sets off on her second attempt on the vault. ... baby of the team in 1996, parlayed her fame as a gymnast into a turn as a ... U.S. Olympic Team (@TeamUSA) July 10, 2016 .... supposed to compete [with] and normally we did," Strug points out. ... She didn't need an in-depth analysis of what went wrong.
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Afanasyeva to miss Russia Cup, but hopes for Rio | Rewriting ...  Jun 20, 2016 ... Afanasyeva said that dependent upon her recovery and selection for ... The magnificent Afanasyeva - key points of an interview with Ksenia, April 2015 ... Seda is second ... After winning her silver medal on vault yesterday, Maria Paseka ... Of course, not everything turned out the way I wanted it to, but still. 4.
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Question Gymnastics But Not Strug's Effort - tribunedigital ...  Jul 25, 1996 ... I can't feel my leg,'' she said, grabbing her ankle. ... her down the runway on Tuesday night, risking further injury to Strug, if not ... Karolyi didn't exactly diffuse this notion in what turned out to be a ... Who wouldn't have tried that vault? ... U.S. team would have won gold anyway and Strug didn't need to go for...
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THE TRUTH ABOUT PAIN: IT'S IN YOUR HEAD - SI.com  Aug 8, 2011 ... It turns out that in this endeavor, the brain is a very good ally. ... Point After .... During the 20 minutes between the semifinal and final, the pain got still worse. ... gymnast famous for her gold-medal-clinching vault on an injured ankle at the ... But why, Dawkins asks, didn't humans develop just a "red flag in the...
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Volleyball Rules  If the score is tied 24-24, then the first team to gain a two point advantage is the ... won on each serve, no matter whether the team who won the point served the ball or not. ... If the ball is held simultaneously by two opposing players, it is a double fault ... on the receiving team before it hits the ground, then a side out is called.
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The Believer - Remote Control by Sarah Marshall  First, the facts: on January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan left the ice after a public ... hit her knee she would undoubtedly have been unable to skate at the Olympics. ... her injury had already been transformed into a gangland kneecapping, while the .... Figure-skating insider that Jeff was, it was his idea to break her landing leg.
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Before Simone Biles, These Women Broke Barriers - The New York ...  Aug 10, 2016 ... She won't even be the first black woman to win the all-around gold at ... down the fact that I was the only African American with a gold medal, ... Kim Zmeskal, world champion in 1991, followed by Shannon Miller ... An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated when Nastia Liukin won the all-around title.
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USA's Claressa Shields wins gold, makes history in U.S. boxing  Aug 21, 2016 ... Shields became the first U.S. boxer to win two gold medals. ... Fontijn in the women's middleweight (75-kilogram) division in a unanimous ... An American flag was draped around her neck. After the win, she did a cartwheel in the ring and ran around the .... Rio Olympics: Every medal captured by Team USA.
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icenetwork.com Forum  The judges didn't give her any corrections but they all gave her a 9. .... I think that the reduced numbers of figure skaters in the U.S. has a lot to do with our failure to ... Nationals is left, and Synchro Worlds (which icenetwork usually doesn't cover). ... However, I'm looking forward to when Glenn scores like she did at Nationals.
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1992 - Page 42 - TennisForum.com  Jun 25, 2013 ... Kelesi and Simpson took the Canadian women's doubles 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 from ..... The '88 men's gold medalist, Miloslav Mecir, will not return. Nearly every tennis player involved in the last Olympics came away with positive feelings. ..... Top-seeded Mary Joe Fernandez, unrelated to Gigi, beat her U.S. Olympic...
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Articles about Stacy Dragila - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Track and field: Stacy Dragila broke her world indoor pole-vault record at the Millrose ... women's Olympic pole-vault title, soared 15 feet 2 1/4 inches on her second try, ... 15 feet, 10 inches on her third attempt, beating by a quarter-inch the record set ... She's the world record-holder in the 1,500 and won that event Saturday.
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Man accused in figure skating fix attempt to be extradited to US  Rogge "appalled" by Russian crime link to skate scandal 58 ..... Canadian pair to get gold medals; judge suspended .... A day after the awards were given, French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne .... he fixed two figure skating events at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. ..... Posted: Thursday August 01, 2002 6:33 AM...
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U.S. loses appeal of disqualification in men's relay - LA Times  Aug 27, 2016 ... 2016 Summer Olympics: The U.S. dominates Rio Games with 121 medals ... disqualification of the men's 400-meter relay team has been denied, according ... but soon afterward was disqualified because of a faulty baton exchange ... saying all protests and appeals were rejected, leaving all results to stand.
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What Is The Produnova Vault? The Rio Olympics Will Have Two ...  Aug 12, 2016 ... Unofficially, it's probably one of the craziest and scariest things you've ever ... Thanks to its difficulty, the Produnova vault can earn a gymnast a high ... body will reportedly move to devalue the vault's scoring next year in an...
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Injured Kerri Strug vaults the U.S. to gymnastics gold - NY Daily News  Jul 23, 2015 ... Kerri Strug stands tall on injured ankle, leads U.S. gymnastics to team gold at ... USA's Kerri Strug is carried by her coach, Bela Karolyi, as she waves to ... It no longer mattered what Rozalia Galiyeva of Russia did on the floor exercise. ... Karolyi carried Strug to a staging area, where her teammates watched...
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SUMMER 2004 GAMES -- GYMNASTICS: WOMEN'S ALL-AROUND ...  Aug 20, 2004 ... My goodness, Carly's got the mental toughness of a champion. ... After failing to win the all-around gold in her third and final Olympics, Khorkina ... Hamm went from 12th to first in the competition after flubbing his vault landing. ... of the program, the team did not win a single medal, and he was blamed.
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Canada advances to Olympic women's hockey final with 3-1 win ...  Feb 17, 2014 ... Canada will play for Olympic women's hockey gold again although their road ... A 3-1 win over a tenacious Switzerland and their indefatigable ... U.S. women's hockey team beats Sweden, reaches gold medal game ... Canada outscored the opposition 46-2 heading into the 2010 final against the U.S..
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How Olympic basketball rules are different from the NBA | FOX Sports  Aug 6, 2016 ... There's (almost) no goaltending ... With a shorter game comes a reduced foul limit for both players and ... A player is disqualified after his fifth foul in international play, rather than six in the NBA  and technical fouls count against that limit ... You can't call time out once a series of free throws has started, and...
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jeopardy/3238_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  4475 - Friday, February 6, 2004 ... Number: 6 .... THE WOMAN | In an off-ice incident, she suffered an injury to her landing knee Jan. 6, 1994 | Nancy Kerrigan.
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Washingtonpost.com: Figure Skating  Although she is still glowing from her gold medal moment, Tara Lipinski (middle), isn't ... fellow American Michelle Kwan for the gold medal in women's figure skating. ... beat the gold-medal favorite with a spirit and joy that filled the entire building. ... Russian Ilia Kulik gave a scintillating performance in the free skate to give...