For almost 20 years, top U.S. women gymnasts would pack a bag, say goodbye to their parents and take a monthly trip that ended with a long drive down a dirt road to a remote compound in a Texas forest. After four more years of hard work and training, she captured America’s spirit at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is best remembered for performing the vault despite having injured her ankle and for subsequently being carried to the podium by her coach, Béla Károlyi. As Kerri Strug was preparing to walk down the aisle, the former gymnast felt something unexpected. But her role as an outcast made her the go-to for Nassar survivors looking for help. “You drive through the woods for like 15 miles and then you see this green […] Dominique Moceanu, the youngest member of the iconic 1996 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team, was ostracized for calling out the sport's abusive culture. Larry Nassar can be seen in the now iconic pictures of Kerri Strug being carried away from the vault after seriously injuring her ankle when she under-rotated her landing on the apparatus. 1996 Olympic team gold-medalist Kerri Strug married attorney Robert Fischer on Sunday, April 24 in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz.

My friend and Magnificent Seven teammate, Kerri Strug, was getting married in Tucson, Arizona. Both currently reside in Washington, D.C., where Strug is a program manager at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Fischer is an attorney currently working for a Member of Congress. As the team competition neared its end, Kerri was up last on vault. Kerri Allyson Strug Fischer (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona.

She was the youngest Olympian at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain at age 14. The bride wore a Pronovias gown, customized with over 5,000 Swarovski crystals and a sweetheart neckline (“it’s spectacular,” says her wedding planner, Anne Bryan) in … Kerri is a two-time Olympian and gold medalist. I walked into the reception the night before the wedding and saw Bela on the other side of a …