Like so many Olympic athletes, Kerri Strug scripted her life up to a gold medal. She scheduled her childhood by a series of gymnastics goals, filling her weeks with practice and conditioning while ...

Tucsonan Kerri Strug, who became a global star by helping Team USA win the 1996 Olympic gymnastics gold medal, is 40 now, but continues to command an audience. She will ...

Kerri Strug, whose vault at the 1996 Olympics clinched gold for the U.S. women's gymnastics team, on Tuesday marked Wednesday's 100-day countdown to the Beijing Games by sharing lessons with ...

Former Arizona Wildcats gymnastics coach Jim Gault, who was Olympic gold medalist Kerri Strug’s first coach, died Monday in Leesville, S.C. He was 77.

At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Kerri Strug landed a vault on one leg as the US won its first-ever team gold medal in gymnastics.

Kerri Strug of the United States is carried by coach Bela Karolyi during the team competition of the Women’s Gymnastics event of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games held on July 23, 1996 in the ...

From Kerri Strug sticking her vault landing on a busted ankle in the ’96 Olympics to a young Muhammad Ali defeating Sonny Liston with the legendary “phantom punch,” it’s no surprise these ...

The images from Atlanta are indelibly impressed on the American consciousness: Kerri Strug landing on a gimpy ankle; Strug crated to the medal stand in the giant arms of her coach, Bela Karolyi ...