Netflix's brilliant yet devastating expose of abuse at top-level gymnastics shows that athletes were disposable machines geared to win medals and sell cereal sponsorship deals, writes Annie Lord
that I had watched years before. At the 1996 Olympics, USA gymnastic team member Kerri Strug falls from a vault, tearing two ligaments in her ankle. In order for the US to win gold, she has to go back around and execute the vault again, this time perfectly. So she crawls off the mat, watery-eyed and limping, and goes to the starting marker again. “You can do it!” shouts her coach Béla Károlyy.
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