via Gymnastics Examiner Week in Review.
Married. And with a 7-year-old niece gymnast, Kerri, now age-33, was recently inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.
read the interview – What’s up with Kerri Strug
Can you settle a bet?
It turned out that Kerri did not need to take her second vault at the 1996 Olympics. Team USA would have won the Gold without that score.
But when was that certain?
Click PLAY or watch those Vaults on YouTube.
Wikipedia says: “Galieva performed after Strug, and therefore Strug needed to land a second vault on her feet in order to mathematically clinch the gold.”
Is that true?
And, if it was early enough to scratch her second vault, could anyone, even Bela, have convinced her not to vault? … She was still trying to qualify for the AA.
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Kerri wanted to qualify for the AA and she knew she would need the second vault to do so… I don’t think anyone could have convinced her not to go for it.
If Galieva hadn’t performed yet (something I don’t know for sure), then Strug technically (but not realistically) needed the 2nd vault to secure the gold. If she hadn’t vaulted again the US’s team total would’ve been 388.713 (using Moceanu’s vault score, which was higher than Strug’s 1st vault score). If Galieva had earned higher than a 9.971, Russia would’ve won. So mathematically it may have been possible, but it was certainly not realistically possible under that C.O.P.
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