Dominique moceanus sister bryant gumbel biography
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In the summer of 1996, it was bigger than Friends and better than the fledgling new reality show The Real World. The best show on earth was the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and the main event, filled with sparkles and scrunchies and killer quad muscles, was the USA women’s gymnastics competition.
Long before “Yes we can,” America’s rallying cry briefly became “You can do it”—the words spoken, of course, by coach Bela Károly as 18-year-old Kerri Strug attempted to stick the landing on the final vault with a very injured ankle. Stick it she did: In front of 32,000 fans and a global television audience, Krug’s remarkable act of perseverance, athleticism, and courage clinched our country’s first-ever team gold medal in women’s gymnastics, edging out arch-rivals Russia and Romania. The team, known as the Magnificent Seven, went down in sports history and became true American heroines—Wheaties boxes, Tonight Show appearances, Sports Illustrated covers, White House visits, and all.
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‘She Looks Like Me’ Review: A Scattershot Doc About One of the Most Incredible Sports Stories Ever
Born without legs in October 1987 and immediately abandoned at the hospital by her biological parents, Jen Bricker was adopted by a small-town Illinois couple — who already had three boys — and raised to believe she could do anything she put her mind to. Her parents, Gerald and Sharon, gently encouraged their daughter to remove the word “can’t” from her vocabulary, and so Bricker never thought twice about playing with or competing against the other kids at her school.
She excelled across a variety of different sports, but her greatest passion was reserved for gymnastics. Obsessed from the moment she first saw future gold medalist Dominique Moceanu perform one of her floor routines on TV (“She was tiny but she was strong, just like me”), Bricker devoted herself to becoming a brilliant power tumbler, and when she was
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The Deadly Tradition/Separated/The Toast of Tinseltown
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
- Episode aired Jul 17, 2012
"The Deadly Tradition" examines dangerous hazing rituals in school bands of historically black universities. "Separated" profile's gymnast Dominique Moceanu's sister Jen Bricker who was give... Read all"The Deadly Tradition" examines dangerous hazing rituals in school bands of historically black universities. "Separated" profile's gymnast Dominique Moceanu's sister Jen Bricker who was given up for adoption after being born without legs. "The Toast of Tinseltown" profiles Los An... Read all"The Deadly Tradition" examines dangerous hazing rituals in school bands of historically black universities. "Separated" profile's gymnast Dominique Moceanu's sister Jen Bricker who was given up for adoption after being born without legs. "The rostad smörgås of Tinseltown" prof