The 1996 Olympics gymnastics team—which included Kerri Strug, Dominique Dawes, and Shannon Miller—was the first USA women's team to win the Olympic gold.
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.
She lives in Ohio where she coaches young athletes at the Dominique Moceanu Gymnastics Center in Medina and continues to advocate for the safety and health of young gymnasts. Her son Vincent, 15, is also a gymnast and a 2028 Olympics hopeful.
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