Here is an article about Kerri. There is an interview too but I would have to buy 600 boxes of Q-Tips to clean my ears out if I listened to it. There is a quote on the page that makes me think she is losing her mind. Or at least her memory.
What people don’t realize, in the gymnastics community, I was always known as the one with lots of talent, but couldn’t put it all together when it counted most.”
I don’t remember Kerri almost putting it all together then messing up to rob her of her rightful place among the worlds greatest gymnasts.
What I remember is Kerri hitting and being beat out by better gymnasts.
In 1991 she was forth for the US gymnasts at worlds. Zmeskal, Miller and Okino beat her.
In 92 it was the same 3 gymnasts.
In 1993 it was Miller and Dawes.
In 94 I think Kerri was hurt
In 95 she made the AA with Dawes being injured.
1996 Kerri got her chance but had to withdraw due to injury.
So when exactly was she
but couldn’t put it all together when it counted most.”
Other gymnasts were better then her. That is why she was left out. Not because she couldn’t put it together.
Silly Kerri Strug.
Did I mention she is knocked up?
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January 26, 2012 at 5:37 am |
Yea, until her one-legged vault in Atlanta, Kerri was pretty much always the brides-maid, never the bride. Not because she couldn’t put it together, but like you said, it was a more obvious truth; it was just because she didn’t have much IT to put together to begin with, and was overshadowed by the likes of Zmeskal, Okino, Miller, Dawes, even Moceanu lol!
January 26, 2012 at 4:13 pm |
Bela probably told her that in front of zmeskal and moceanu in order to motivate them to do better… And she believed it
January 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm |
That’s true exgymgurl. She actually ended up being the one the general public remembers most, so in the end, she was the biggest celebrity of the bunch. Who could forget Kippy Strug on SNL LOL!!
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi131072025/
January 26, 2012 at 9:27 pm |
Kerri was always overshadowed by others…like you say. She was never the “it” girl until she landed that second vault. If she hadn’t had it end like that, she would have faded into obscurity. That ankle injury was the best thing she could have had happen to her during her gymnastics career (sad but true).
January 27, 2012 at 12:39 am |
Kerri strugg wants to completely control her own child… Thats a loopy interview
January 27, 2012 at 3:38 pm |
Good lord.
She really was overshadowed all the time. I think it was because she didn’t have the same ball-busting confidence that the other girls had. The others walked into the arena and you could see on their face that they knew they were awesome. Kerri sort of looked like she wanted to hide under the mats.
January 27, 2012 at 10:45 pm |
Overshadowed implies she was better then them and just didn’t get the credit. She was never over shadowed because she wasn’t as good as them. She was what she was. A consistent gymnast with bad form that did not stand out for anything. Even her vault power was exaggerated.
January 28, 2012 at 12:34 am |
LOL When I said “IT”, I meant aside from a lacking a certain sparkle, she couldn’t even do back handsprings without bent legs. She wasn’t clean and her gymnastics never WOW’ed me. She performed last in some events in Atlanta in a strategic, score-building maneuver, by putting weaker athletes last they build on momentum. so she scores higher than what she would have had she gone first. So although overshadowed may be a misleading term, she was routinely out-performed by her peers.
January 30, 2012 at 6:16 am |
Kippy was way better than Kerri