I have heard that she was pretty upset over effectively destroying her chances of winning a personal gold in the all-around, but I hope she has come to understand one thing: winning a gold medal takes talent and determination, but what she did takes character. What she did will be remembered a hundred times longer than some personal achievement. She is loved by everyone who was watching that day 25 years ago.
im sure shes happy with the career ruining injury she received over the potential to be one of the most decorated gymnasts ever. She was pressured into throwing a whole successful career away for 1 medal that she likely already won from the first round. Sad people keep justifying abuse and sacrifice just because they've watched too many movies.
@@XrayTheMyth23 I wondered that myself. But I guess it comes down to her personal feelings about being pressured into that performance. During the interview on Jay Leno she actually said she was glad her trainer insisted she stay for the honoring of her team, before retiring to the hospital for her injury 🤕 treatment... I wonder 🤔 what Kerri has stated about her coach's pushing her into that performance after the first injury??? after all these years? I don't know?
I still shit bricks over the fact that right after this amazing woman injured her leg winning gold for her country at her home Olympic games, she would have been handed off to Larry Nassar for treatment... A moment of appreciation for just how much great athletes past and present have had to genuinely suffer for the sake of their careers...
@@nicholastrudeau8928 She sprained her ankle. She didn't even break her ankle. She lived. She didn't become a paraplegic or quadriplegic. Google Elena from Russia. A Chinese gymnast in 76 had a broken leg and still did his 2nd routine, and did a perfect dismount, landing on his already broken leg, but this was necessary. He did it for his team because without his extra points, they wouldn't have gotten gold.
What she did is worth more than even sweeping gold in all events and the all-around in the individuals. No one is going to remember who won gold that Olympics years from now. But people fondly remember her clutch performance. Being an Olympian in any sport takes hard work, dedication, determination… What Kerri did takes heart. And that’s in short supply even with Olympians. She may not have won individual medals, but her legacy will live on far longer than most of those who did.
Anyone who watches the clip after the fact cannot experience what exactly it was like to watch it live because when it happened NO ONE knew she was going to hurt her ankle and EVERYONE thought USAs chances at a gold were lost to the Russians. She was our last hope and the last gymnast and she fell and hurt herself on her first vault. We all thought it was over. And we all WAITED while she was looked over by the doctors and they were saying she would not be able to do another vault. Then as the last seconds of time she had between vaults drew near, Bella took her over to the mat where she stood up and hobbled over to the starting spot, ready to go again. We couldnt believe she was going to try agsin. Then silence and anticipation as she took off AT FULL SPEED on her injured ankle sprinting toward the vault, when she sprang off of the trampoline off of the vault and high into the air, spinning around perfectly and coming down HARD only to STICK the landing on ONE LEG as her thigh shuddered when she struggled to stand fully upright ON ONE LEG! And she did it, and she held her arms high and the crowd ERUPTED in the loudest cheers as she turned on one leg to hold her arms high for the judges and then collapsed on the ground. Watching it then as it happened it was THE GREATEST FEAT AT THE GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT which gave USA the WIN! The most impressive moment in sports ive ever seen launching her into her place as the MOST INCREDIBLE ATHLETE ever to compete in sports. Im a grown man and it brought me to tears. Nothing like it before or since.
Dude, I felt every damn thing you did. I can't watch that clip, and even reading you recapping that moment, without getting teared up! It was an incredible moment. I do feel bad knowing now what the Karolyi's(the coaches) put those girls through, forcing them to through injuries and practices far beyond what we would ever accept kids to endure. I'm proud and thankful for the result and the heart these girls showed.
She....was...epic.... me and Bobby Hill agree. Almost 30 yrs later, and I am reflecting on this. Just epic!!!!! Thank you, Kerri. You still inspire us.
The two-time Olympian tweeted her supported for Biles. Sending love to you @Simone_Biles, Strug, 43, wrote, along with a goat emoji and a heart, representing the fact that Biles is known as the GOAT, or the greatest of all time. The gold medalist also praised the entire womens team, who won a silver medal, behind the Russian Olympic Committee. Congrats #teamusa, Strug wrote. Great respect for all your hard work and support for each other. We are proud of you!
Biles is a two time loser douche! Don't even dare put Biles in the same sentence with this champian, Biles lost the gold for the American team and She won the gold! Get what I am saying? Fu$##! Biles!!!!!!
To this day, when people so me about my favorite sports memory, I often share her story and each time my eyes fill with tears of respect and honor. What she accomplished was one of the most heroic things I've ever seen an athlete do!
I remember way back, there was a male Japanese how broke his ankle on a vault. After that he pulled a 9.7 off the horizonal high bar. He landed with a similar style.
@@turbo8628 It was HEROIC!! Say, do you LOVE Babymetal? I like the vintage with Yui and the wonderful Mikio Fujioka...I miss him dearly. Bm isn't the same after he touched the stars...
@@1950Chimaera i like inspirational moments im sports like fujimoto. Wasn't around for that, but derek redmond at the 1992 olympics is one of my earliest memories.
Greatest gold victory. Every video of the vault there are so many Bella bashers that keep saying Kerri was made to do second vault with a broken leg! Here she is saying there was no fracture, ligament damage. How could she have run down ramp with a fracture. ❤❤❤💯🇺🇸 what a sweetheart
What a dump statment the lady retired at 18 yrs old for a medal !!! Ur proud ye forced a young athlete to continue n loss her career for ever only in America yer dump af
Wow! She's so beautiful, and what a CLASS act! And that voice!! She has the heart of a champion. I had a severe ankle sprain/torn ligaments last year, and heard that "pop" sound. I am still astonished that she was able to do what she did after that, with the second vault. It brings tears to me eyes every time I watch it, because I know some of what she was dealing with and pushing through, and it's almost impossible, and also because I'm just so inspired by and proud of her. This is truly one of the very, very, gutsiest performances I've ever seen or known of. In fact, since yesterday, I've been thinking of what would be the most inspiring and moving sports performances ever, and although there are others, the two that keep coming up and are solidly at the top of my list by themselves are this, Kerri's second vault in '96, and the "Bobby Murcer game" in 1979, after Thurmon Munson, the Yankees' team captain, was killed in a plane crash during the season. (I encourage you to watch the video of that; it should still be here on YT and it's less than 15 minutes long, I believe). Kerri is a true inspiration! God bless her! I know it was a true team effort, but wow, talk about your all-time gut-checks; she literally carried the team on her back at that moment, on one good leg. I feel like writing more, but I realize that words just aren't going to be enough. Just wow! I'm 50 years of age, and this is easily in my top list of all-time greatest sports moments. Thank you, Kerri!!! Peace and love. ((()))
Hi, Rose! We never know what someone is really going through. Sometimes, what we know or is reported is not necessarily false, but not the whole story. I can only speculate, but it must be something deep, because these ladies work most of their lives to prepare for these moments, and Simone has already shown that she can do it. I know Simone represented the USA spectacularly in 2016 and in the past, and she's a star (multiple gold medals). She has what it takes. And she was there cheering on her teammates during this Olympics. Peace and love, David :)
You've just witnessed a 90 lb. gymnast, possessed of BRUTAL HEROICS, battled through excruciating pain and possible, unknown permanent injury to herself and her career, selflessly carried and entire nation over the line to international glory. Don't you dare quit!!!
@@rachylmartinez5860 Every time I see this, I cringe. I truly believe she just doesn’t realize how wrong this is because she’d been worked so damn hard and taught from a young age to just keep going at all costs. I don’t think people understand the strength it takes to say enough is enough. Had that ankle given out during her routine, it would’ve been so much worse. Ending your career for a gold medal? It all screams people pleasing to me. Someone people need something that gives them worth and she’s mentioned in another interview this moment is that for her.
I have tried and can not put into words what watching this girl do that last vault felt like for me, a girl who loved gymnastics. What posters were on my walls as a preteen? No boys, just gymnasts. Shannon Miller was the one for me. But seeing this girl push through extraordinary pain, I can't come up with any other words that respect and integrity. Such immense heart this young woman showed. On a separate note, the Karolyi's, the husband and wife team that coached many of the "Magnificent 7" were later recognized to be extremely hard, to the point of blatant abuse, on their gymnasts. So when she recalled being told by Bela Karolyi that the president was on the phone and that she was intimidated/scared of him, it hits different knowing how he worked those girls, teenage girls, to working more hours than you can believe, through pain, tears and in Keri's situation, through broken effing bones. Happy they won the gold, happy to see the Magnificent 7 win the first gold in women's gymnastics.
Just finished Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within training and Tony talked about Kerry's determination to do the vault despite the injury and the pain.
Dude really?? Man, let me tell you I got mad respect for her, bro. I saw it when it happened, and that was one of the gutsiest performances I've seen in the history of sports. Most of today's athletes, not so much. That woman, to this day, still deserves a great deal of respect.
@@lovely7983 laughable, and yet people like y’all keep belittling Simone Biles even though she herself has already won gold medals for the US in the past Olympics before Tokyo. “OhHh, BuT sHe QuIt!” Blah blah blah. The hypocrisy sure is strong, lol. Y’all treating these athletes as if they should fight to their deaths at these Olympics regardless of the kind of physical/mental health sacrifices that they have to make. Side note, Michael Phelps was once suicidal after experiencing the amount of pressure he’s had faced as an American Olympian even though he’s had accomplished so much and became the most decorated Olympian-and yet, he fully understands and supports Simone Biles. Many of those who bashed Simone Biles probably won’t even ever be able to accomplish what she has already accomplished, cuz all y’all could ever do is talk the talk. 💁🏻♀️
She really just went up to carry struggle after struggle, and man was it done well. Yeah, that was a pun, but like, to an extent she did Kerri the team as much as they had to then carry her, and that wasn't a tiny struggle, it was a gigantic challenge for Mrs. Strug. As someone who's good at twisting his ankles walking around, I feel nothing in comparison to the legendary event this one was. I wasn't even alive yet and here we are, impressed by this.
What many people don’t realize is that even if she hadn’t landed that vault, team USA would have won regardless. Instead of winning by about 0.820, the margin would have been about 0.31.
They wouldn’t have won. her landing that vault made the stadium explode which messed up the Russians big time. Had she fallen the Russians probably would’ve got a lot better scores and the US would’ve came in silver.
I remember they had nearly an insurmountable lead with the two girls still to vault, and the announcers saying that they only needed one fairly decent vault, out of their 4 tries, to win. They were not able to rely on the Russians making mistakes in their event.
@@haoleboysurfec2730 actually it was all but a sure thing. The last 2 Russian gymnasts needed to score 9.9 on floor and that was not going to happen. The Olympic champion that year did not score a 9.9. Strut made it official but even at the moment if they had a bit more time to loo at the scores they would have seen that it was all but wrapped up. Nice try though
“I’m a little intimidated by Bella, so I got off the phone.” Says it all. She’s tough and brave and deserves her spot among the Olympic greats, but she didn’t deserve to be abused by him like that. 😔
She wasn't abused. They were old school trainers who pushed the no name American team into Olympic greats. People also don't understand the social impact defeating the Russians had for that team. It was a time the soviet union just fell & there was still that America vs the Soviets mentality. It was like winning a mini-war. I dont agree with Bela's supposed "encouragement" of eating little food but the other stuff they did, they tried to make their training environment intense so that when big meets happened it was like any other day. Bela once said there's many great gymnasts you never heard of because when it came to competition they just couldn't handle the crowds & pressure.
The two-time Olympian tweeted her supported for Biles. Sending love to you @Simone_Biles, Strug, 43, wrote, along with a goat emoji and a heart, representing the fact that Biles is known as the GOAT, or the greatest of all time. The gold medalist also praised the entire womens team, who won a silver medal, behind the Russian Olympic Committee. Congrats #teamusa, Strug wrote. Great respect for all your hard work and support for each other. We are proud of you!
I’ve done that before, my ankles aren’t the same years after. It sounds like stepping on snow, then you can’t feel it, numb other than hot and cold feelings, it swells, you can’t move it, you’ve torn your ligaments, that’s what’s so odd about this, the human body has functions, she defied that. Shouldn’t have been possible to do what she did. At all. I can’t imagine it and I’ve torn ligaments a few times and was a gymnast myself for years, I just don’t understand it. Mind over matter I guess. I’m British and one thing I love about the US is they are like us British, they win or die. Bravery doesn’t come into it, you have no choice. You were born a winner. You don’t bleed red, you bleed the colour of your ancestors, the colour of the flag, you bleed gold if you have to.
poor girl, I can't imagine the amount of pressure she was under at only 15. You can tell here she wasn't just an Olympic Gold Medalist but she was deep in the throws of an eating disorder that was stealing her youth as well. Her teeth are literally pegs. Everyone is making fun of her voice, but the reality is she was robbed of getting to go through puberty in a healthy way because she had so much stress on her to compete and was also starving herself, so her voice never even would have had a chance to develop.
She walked out in high heels no hint off a limp or that tens therapy she doing must have healed it but she badly sprained it more like. One can still walk with a sprain after a few weeks off therapy. But people keep saying she broke it.
To think that Simone Biles hasn't seen Kerri Strug's (basically) "farewell to gymnastics" interview tour, and isn't "enlightened" to ignore her body's messages - physical and mental - is a fairly wild assumption. This video, and Elena Mukhina's story (y'know, the young woman who ignored her physical and mental wellbeing for her coach/team/country, broke her leg, predicted she would break her neck, and then broke her neck) probably "enlightened" Simone to do what these phenoms before her SHOULD HAVE DONE (and what they actually wanted to do) - take a step back and take care of themselves.
As Strug says in this interview, she did it because her team and country came first. She is a professional and a true champion. Not a lucky coward who quits when they get some twisties BS.
@Louise Louise Did you not watch this video? The Russians were on floor and the US team couldn’t know if they had enough points to win at the time of her vault. That’s true! I’ve watched that competition and you can even hear the Russian music in the background! What’s wrong with you
I have heard that she was pretty upset over effectively destroying her chances of winning a personal gold in the all-around, but I hope she has come to understand one thing: winning a gold medal takes talent and determination, but what she did takes character. What she did will be remembered a hundred times longer than some personal achievement. She is loved by everyone who was watching that day 25 years ago.
It's also called taking one for the team. 😉👍🏅
im sure shes happy with the career ruining injury she received over the potential to be one of the most decorated gymnasts ever. She was pressured into throwing a whole successful career away for 1 medal that she likely already won from the first round. Sad people keep justifying abuse and sacrifice just because they've watched too many movies.
@@XrayTheMyth23 and yet you refuted ....nothing....that I said.
@@XrayTheMyth23 she legit gave an interview and said she was very proud about her final vault but speak for her I guess 🤨
@@XrayTheMyth23 I wondered that myself. But I guess it comes down to her personal feelings about being pressured into that performance. During the interview on Jay Leno she actually said she was glad her trainer insisted she stay for the honoring of her team, before retiring to the hospital for her injury 🤕 treatment... I wonder 🤔 what Kerri has stated about her coach's pushing her into that performance after the first injury??? after all these years?
I don't know?
She made her country very proud. True Grit. Well done Kerri!
Sweetest little tough gal ever with that adorable voice❣️
She STILL sounds like that :)
Adorable voice? My gawd, the women is 42 years old and still talks like that.
@@miltonsmith974 is because of the hormones.... some body builders male sound like that....
I still shit bricks over the fact that right after this amazing woman injured her leg winning gold for her country at her home Olympic games, she would have been handed off to Larry Nassar for treatment...
A moment of appreciation for just how much great athletes past and present have had to genuinely suffer for the sake of their careers...
Kerri never stated she has been abused by him, not every gymnast was
I think he began to work with the national team one year after Atlanta.
if there is a hell Larry has a special place there
i will NEVER forget those olympics as long as i live.....YOU WORKED IT OUT KERRI!!!!
The smallest voice with the most powerful message; it is so stunning as time has revealed how horrible her injury and the inspiration keeps growing.
😮😊😊😊😊😊😊
@@nicholastrudeau8928 She sprained her ankle. She didn't even break her ankle. She lived. She didn't become a paraplegic or quadriplegic. Google Elena from Russia. A Chinese gymnast in 76 had a broken leg and still did his 2nd routine, and did a perfect dismount, landing on his already broken leg, but this was necessary. He did it for his team because without his extra points, they wouldn't have gotten gold.
She is truly adorable and she embodies everything that is good about America!
This woman is a legend. Period.
@McKelt why is she a legend?
What she did is worth more than even sweeping gold in all events and the all-around in the individuals. No one is going to remember who won gold that Olympics years from now. But people fondly remember her clutch performance. Being an Olympian in any sport takes hard work, dedication, determination… What Kerri did takes heart. And that’s in short supply even with Olympians. She may not have won individual medals, but her legacy will live on far longer than most of those who did.
Anyone who watches the clip after the fact cannot experience what exactly it was like to watch it live because when it happened NO ONE knew she was going to hurt her ankle and EVERYONE thought USAs chances at a gold were lost to the Russians.
She was our last hope and the last gymnast and she fell and hurt herself on her first vault. We all thought it was over. And we all WAITED while she was looked over by the doctors and they were saying she would not be able to do another vault.
Then as the last seconds of time she had between vaults drew near, Bella took her over to the mat where she stood up and hobbled over to the starting spot, ready to go again. We couldnt believe she was going to try agsin.
Then silence and anticipation as she took off AT FULL SPEED on her injured ankle sprinting toward the vault, when she sprang off of the trampoline off of the vault and high into the air, spinning around perfectly and coming down HARD only to STICK the landing on ONE LEG as her thigh shuddered when she struggled to stand fully upright ON ONE LEG!
And she did it, and she held her arms high and the crowd ERUPTED in the loudest cheers as she turned on one leg to hold her arms high for the judges and then collapsed on the ground.
Watching it then as it happened it was THE GREATEST FEAT AT THE GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT which gave USA the WIN!
The most impressive moment in sports ive ever seen launching her into her place as the MOST INCREDIBLE ATHLETE ever to compete in sports.
Im a grown man and it brought me to tears.
Nothing like it before or since.
I was there in the stadium when it happened it truly was an unmatched moment.
Dude, I felt every damn thing you did. I can't watch that clip, and even reading you recapping that moment, without getting teared up! It was an incredible moment.
I do feel bad knowing now what the Karolyi's(the coaches) put those girls through, forcing them to through injuries and practices far beyond what we would ever accept kids to endure.
I'm proud and thankful for the result and the heart these girls showed.
Watched it live as well. Know exactly how you felt.
She....was...epic.... me and Bobby Hill agree. Almost 30 yrs later, and I am reflecting on this. Just epic!!!!! Thank you, Kerri. You still inspire us.
I expected a lower voice but when I first heard her speak, I was like, she's so cute
Her voice is exactly what I expected it to be...adorably high pitched. She still has that voice, too.
She sounds like Melissa Rauch on Big Bang.
Omg. She is the sweetest and cutest human🥺💖 so pure 🤍
Sweet, cute and pure. Just how I like my women.
The two-time Olympian tweeted her supported for Biles.
Sending love to you @Simone_Biles, Strug, 43, wrote, along with a goat emoji and a heart, representing the fact that Biles is known as the GOAT, or the greatest of all time.
The gold medalist also praised the entire womens team, who won a silver medal, behind the Russian Olympic Committee.
Congrats #teamusa, Strug wrote. Great respect for all your hard work and support for each other. We are proud of you!
Kerri really is a class act.
Biles is a two time loser douche!
Don't even dare put Biles in the same sentence with this champian,
Biles lost the gold for the American team and She won the gold!
Get what I am saying? Fu$##! Biles!!!!!!
I remember watching that event on live TV. It was amazing!!
same! i was a kid when it happened, but i still remember it so clearly 😊
her determination is beyond belief. hats off !
unlike others
Gymnasts have trouble today sticking a landing with two good ankles, Kerri stuck it with one! I will never forget that moment.
Historic, I remember watching this. America loves this woman.
When I first heard her talk when this aired that year, I was like "WHOA"... Then I thought "awe...". Lol
Lol
@Samdk you are? We don't need to know that, but thanks.
To this day, when people so me about my favorite sports memory, I often share her story and each time my eyes fill with tears of respect and honor. What she accomplished was one of the most heroic things I've ever seen an athlete do!
What an exciting night that was when the team won the first Olympic gold medal!
Great interview! She is one likeable person, charismatic too. I am very impressed. Thank you for the video.
This woman is the epitome of taking one for the team. May God continue to bless her perpetually!
Holy cow she's adorable. Very sweet. They have such a nice banter. Jay was a good late night host.
I remember way back, there was a male Japanese how broke his ankle on a vault. After that he pulled a 9.7 off the horizonal high bar. He landed with a similar style.
Shun fujimoto. I just searched for this after reading your comment. Thank you 👍
@@turbo8628 It was HEROIC!! Say, do you LOVE Babymetal? I like the vintage with Yui and the wonderful Mikio Fujioka...I miss him dearly. Bm isn't the same after he touched the stars...
@@1950Chimaera i like inspirational moments im sports like fujimoto. Wasn't around for that, but derek redmond at the 1992 olympics is one of my earliest memories.
Greatest gold victory. Every video of the vault there are so many Bella bashers that keep saying Kerri was made to do second vault with a broken leg! Here she is saying there was no fracture, ligament damage. How could she have run down ramp with a fracture. ❤❤❤💯🇺🇸 what a sweetheart
She is the best America has to offer. That is who we are.
Thats who SHE is. You need to do your bit too.
I'm glad you all got that gold Olympic medal together
what a wonderful young lady and still a wonderful lady. makes me proud to be an American.
What a dump statment the lady retired at 18 yrs old for a medal !!! Ur proud ye forced a young athlete to continue n loss her career for ever only in America yer dump af
Wow! She's so beautiful, and what a CLASS act! And that voice!! She has the heart of a champion. I had a severe ankle sprain/torn ligaments last year, and heard that "pop" sound. I am still astonished that she was able to do what she did after that, with the second vault. It brings tears to me eyes every time I watch it, because I know some of what she was dealing with and pushing through, and it's almost impossible, and also because I'm just so inspired by and proud of her. This is truly one of the very, very, gutsiest performances I've ever seen or known of. In fact, since yesterday, I've been thinking of what would be the most inspiring and moving sports performances ever, and although there are others, the two that keep coming up and are solidly at the top of my list by themselves are this, Kerri's second vault in '96, and the "Bobby Murcer game" in 1979, after Thurmon Munson, the Yankees' team captain, was killed in a plane crash during the season. (I encourage you to watch the video of that; it should still be here on YT and it's less than 15 minutes long, I believe). Kerri is a true inspiration! God bless her! I know it was a true team effort, but wow, talk about your all-time gut-checks; she literally carried the team on her back at that moment, on one good leg. I feel like writing more, but I realize that words just aren't going to be enough. Just wow! I'm 50 years of age, and this is easily in my top list of all-time greatest sports moments. Thank you, Kerri!!! Peace and love. ((()))
Forward this post to Biles please, david Johnson!
Hi, Rose! We never know what someone is really going through. Sometimes, what we know or is reported is not necessarily false, but not the whole story. I can only speculate, but it must be something deep, because these ladies work most of their lives to prepare for these moments, and Simone has already shown that she can do it. I know Simone represented the USA spectacularly in 2016 and in the past, and she's a star (multiple gold medals). She has what it takes. And she was there cheering on her teammates during this Olympics. Peace and love, David :)
...hoo-yah, Mr. Johnson.
She is so strong wow that's amazing
I literally screamed and cried tears of joy when she did her final vault I was so emotional
Epitome of tough. ❤🇺🇲
This is the kind of late night host we need.
"A cellular telephone" lol.
😂😂
Kerri Strug and her Team USA Women's Artistic Gymnastics getting their gold medal.
her voice🥹🩷
You've just witnessed a 90 lb. gymnast, possessed of BRUTAL HEROICS, battled through excruciating pain and possible, unknown permanent injury to herself and her career, selflessly carried and entire nation over the line to international glory. Don't you dare quit!!!
No, the message here is, quit before you destroy yourself. That is way way too much to put on a person. And for what?
@@rachylmartinez5860 Every time I see this, I cringe. I truly believe she just doesn’t realize how wrong this is because she’d been worked so damn hard and taught from a young age to just keep going at all costs. I don’t think people understand the strength it takes to say enough is enough. Had that ankle given out during her routine, it would’ve been so much worse. Ending your career for a gold medal? It all screams people pleasing to me. Someone people need something that gives them worth and she’s mentioned in another interview this moment is that for her.
What a lovely, brave and inspiring young lady :)
I have tried and can not put into words what watching this girl do that last vault felt like for me, a girl who loved gymnastics. What posters were on my walls as a preteen? No boys, just gymnasts. Shannon Miller was the one for me. But seeing this girl push through extraordinary pain, I can't come up with any other words that respect and integrity. Such immense heart this young woman showed.
On a separate note, the Karolyi's, the husband and wife team that coached many of the "Magnificent 7" were later recognized to be extremely hard, to the point of blatant abuse, on their gymnasts. So when she recalled being told by Bela Karolyi that the president was on the phone and that she was intimidated/scared of him, it hits different knowing how he worked those girls, teenage girls, to working more hours than you can believe, through pain, tears and in Keri's situation, through broken effing bones.
Happy they won the gold, happy to see the Magnificent 7 win the first gold in women's gymnastics.
Strong heart.
Forget Willis Reed, this is the most clutch moment in the history of sports, male or female.
Truly legendary.
Her voice is adorable 🥰
That's right! She sacrificed to get USA a gold, she deserved a picture with the president. I love her strength, and her confidence.
her voice always gets me.
A Real life superhero
She is definitely determined
Amazing to watch live!
Just finished Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within training and Tony talked about Kerry's determination to do the vault despite the injury and the pain.
Oh my god, she is so cute!
She is adorable!
She is so sweet❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you watch the first vault you can hear that ankle crack on her landing.
💕💕💕Kerri Strug 💪💪💪🇺🇸
I can't believe in five yrs it will be 30 yrs
In other words, it's been 25 years.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 lol shut up!! Don’t you realize that In 15 years it’ll be 50 years!! That’s a long time!
Not only that, but in 75 years, it will be a full century. Trippy, huh?
Whoa that voice.
Like Yuya OMG!
Her voice makes a lot more sense coming out of a tiny little girl than Mike Tyson's voice did the first time we heard him lol
Damn y'all some young bucks for us who saw her live in 96 knew this!!! Way before the TicTok and Tide Pod days!!🇺🇲💯
@@anthonybrysiak2309 congrats?
@@fibonaccisequins4637 eats tide pods lmao
These were great times...
WHAT A CUTIE!!! 🤍🤍🤍
Hey 2021, this is what courage looks like.
Exactly!
Word !
No pants but heck it was moment in history that needed to be shown brace and all.
She is so adorable
She’s my aunt talked to her a few days ago on the phone
That’s so cool. Your aunt’s vault has always been my favorite Olympic moment. So iconic.
Dude really?? Man, let me tell you I got mad respect for her, bro. I saw it when it happened, and that was one of the gutsiest performances I've seen in the history of sports. Most of today's athletes, not so much. That woman, to this day, still deserves a great deal of respect.
I hope she's doing well. That was one of the greatest sports moments I've ever seen. I still have that Wheaties box.
I surprised that she didn’t become a cartoon voice actor. She would be so perfect
She works in the Juvenile Justice Department now
@@Doublemg12 oh my
She did that!!!
'I'm a little bit intimidated by Bela' 😭
I was looking for this comment, I knew someone wouldn’t be able to interpret a joke
She loved Bela. They all did.
@@lovely7983 you took the words right out of my mouth
@@lovely7983 laughable, and yet people like y’all keep belittling Simone Biles even though she herself has already won gold medals for the US in the past Olympics before Tokyo. “OhHh, BuT sHe QuIt!” Blah blah blah. The hypocrisy sure is strong, lol. Y’all treating these athletes as if they should fight to their deaths at these Olympics regardless of the kind of physical/mental health sacrifices that they have to make. Side note, Michael Phelps was once suicidal after experiencing the amount of pressure he’s had faced as an American Olympian even though he’s had accomplished so much and became the most decorated Olympian-and yet, he fully understands and supports Simone Biles. Many of those who bashed Simone Biles probably won’t even ever be able to accomplish what she has already accomplished, cuz all y’all could ever do is talk the talk. 💁🏻♀️
She really just went up to carry struggle after struggle, and man was it done well. Yeah, that was a pun, but like, to an extent she did Kerri the team as much as they had to then carry her, and that wasn't a tiny struggle, it was a gigantic challenge for Mrs. Strug. As someone who's good at twisting his ankles walking around, I feel nothing in comparison to the legendary event this one was. I wasn't even alive yet and here we are, impressed by this.
What many people don’t realize is that even if she hadn’t landed that vault, team USA would have won regardless. Instead of winning by about 0.820, the margin would have been about 0.31.
They wouldn’t have won. her landing that vault made the stadium explode which messed up the Russians big time. Had she fallen the Russians probably would’ve got a lot better scores and the US would’ve came in silver.
I remember they had nearly an insurmountable lead with the two girls still to vault, and the announcers saying that they only needed one fairly decent vault, out of their 4 tries, to win. They were not able to rely on the Russians making mistakes in their event.
She sealed it. It was not a sure thing.
@@haoleboysurfec2730 actually it was all but a sure thing. The last 2 Russian gymnasts needed to score 9.9 on floor and that was not going to happen. The Olympic champion that year did not score a 9.9. Strut made it official but even at the moment if they had a bit more time to loo at the scores they would have seen that it was all but wrapped up. Nice try though
@tony braxter sure Jan. No one hit a 9.9 at the olympics. These 2 gymnasts were not going to hit 9.9 either.
Mr miyagi would be proud.
Even though she's only 4' 8", her voice is still so surprising. She was adorable.
I never heard her speak. I did not expect this.
“I’m a little intimidated by Bella, so I got off the phone.” Says it all. She’s tough and brave and deserves her spot among the Olympic greats, but she didn’t deserve to be abused by him like that. 😔
That's cute.
She wasn't abused. Stop trying to project you're own weak boo hoo story on too her.
you have a weak mind, stop playing victim hood.
@@slothmaster101 She was abused. They were all abused. Ever hear of Larry Nasser?
She wasn't abused. They were old school trainers who pushed the no name American team into Olympic greats. People also don't understand the social impact defeating the Russians had for that team. It was a time the soviet union just fell & there was still that America vs the Soviets mentality. It was like winning a mini-war. I dont agree with Bela's supposed "encouragement" of eating little food but the other stuff they did, they tried to make their training environment intense so that when big meets happened it was like any other day. Bela once said there's many great gymnasts you never heard of because when it came to competition they just couldn't handle the crowds & pressure.
She is very pretty! A little cutie!
Watch this interview (especially at the 2:50-3:40 mark). It puts Simone Biles' 2021 Olympics retreat into proper perspective.
Yeah Kerri Strug had to retire after this, that gives some true perspective
You know damn well Billy Boy wanted pictures with these amazing girls.
now i know why Olivia Wilde casts Thomasin McKenzie to play Kerri
I can only hear Chris Kattan to this day 😂 Bela !!!
Olivia Wilde is making a documentary about Kerri.
A biopic. Starring Thomasin McKenzie
Tucson!!!!
Who’s here after Simones Giles pulled out of Olympics ‘21?
The two-time Olympian tweeted her supported for Biles.
Sending love to you @Simone_Biles, Strug, 43, wrote, along with a goat emoji and a heart, representing the fact that Biles is known as the GOAT, or the greatest of all time.
The gold medalist also praised the entire womens team, who won a silver medal, behind the Russian Olympic Committee.
Congrats #teamusa, Strug wrote. Great respect for all your hard work and support for each other. We are proud of you!
@@commonsense8809 wtf?
Strug has class. Biles is a coward, selfish, unprofessional and a quitter.
@@gial8862this didn’t go over well , 2024 biles most medals , just surpassed Shannon miller .
I didn’t even know that was her voice omg
I’ve done that before, my ankles aren’t the same years after. It sounds like stepping on snow, then you can’t feel it, numb other than hot and cold feelings, it swells, you can’t move it, you’ve torn your ligaments, that’s what’s so odd about this, the human body has functions, she defied that. Shouldn’t have been possible to do what she did. At all. I can’t imagine it and I’ve torn ligaments a few times and was a gymnast myself for years, I just don’t understand it. Mind over matter I guess. I’m British and one thing I love about the US is they are like us British, they win or die. Bravery doesn’t come into it, you have no choice. You were born a winner. You don’t bleed red, you bleed the colour of your ancestors, the colour of the flag, you bleed gold if you have to.
poor girl, I can't imagine the amount of pressure she was under at only 15. You can tell here she wasn't just an Olympic Gold Medalist but she was deep in the throws of an eating disorder that was stealing her youth as well. Her teeth are literally pegs. Everyone is making fun of her voice, but the reality is she was robbed of getting to go through puberty in a healthy way because she had so much stress on her to compete and was also starving herself, so her voice never even would have had a chance to develop.
good we don't like over weights girls like Simone
She so sweet
😮
-Way more athletic than you'll ever be
-Pushed through more pain than anyone I've ever seen.
-US Olympics Gold medalist
-And she's cute
She walked out in high heels no hint off a limp or that tens therapy she doing must have healed it but she badly sprained it more like. One can still walk with a sprain after a few weeks off therapy. But people keep saying she broke it.
Elijah Wood was in the Olymics?
"The first time America has pulled off this feet".
does she remind anyone else of Frenchie from Grease!?
THE LAST PERSON!!! frenchie?? the awkward goofball who dropped out of a highschool to fail worse at beauty school???? WTF. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@teddybears4life240 what does her character have to do with her looks? What a stupid contrast🥴
@@JordanJSparks THEN WTF are u talking about???? OMG!! KERRI DOES NOT LOOK LIKE STUPID FRENCHIE IN ANY WAY!!! ur blind, get glasses!!!
"Shake it off Kippy! Shake it off!"
Whoah the voice
she is really cute
Did anyone send this to Simone? She may find it enlightening.
To think that Simone Biles hasn't seen Kerri Strug's (basically) "farewell to gymnastics" interview tour, and isn't "enlightened" to ignore her body's messages - physical and mental - is a fairly wild assumption. This video, and Elena Mukhina's story (y'know, the young woman who ignored her physical and mental wellbeing for her coach/team/country, broke her leg, predicted she would break her neck, and then broke her neck) probably "enlightened" Simone to do what these phenoms before her SHOULD HAVE DONE (and what they actually wanted to do) - take a step back and take care of themselves.
As Strug says in this interview, she did it because her team and country came first. She is a professional and a true champion. Not a lucky coward who quits when they get some twisties BS.
Bo JαCk sent me here
“I’m thinking, enoughs enough.”
She sounds so young
That's a championships mentality
The phenon
I was a 12yo in love with Shannon miller.
Put the damn leotard on Jay
"I sprained it" it is what they said. "After the first vault i heard it crack"
Oh...so you went to IRMC in PA!!!!
@Louise Louise Did you not watch this video? The Russians were on floor and the US team couldn’t know if they had enough points to win at the time of her vault. That’s true! I’ve watched that competition and you can even hear the Russian music in the background! What’s wrong with you
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