by Cally Chisholm | Aug 6, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared at Good Faith Media on July 30, 2021. As of Monday, August 5, 2024, Biles has won Gold medals in the team event, all-around and vault competitions, and a silver medal in the floor routine at the Olympic Games in...
by Jamie Marich | Jul 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Last Wednesday, while many of my fellow Americans tuned in to watch J.D. Vance speak at the Republican National Convention, I watched the docuseries “Simone Biles: Rising.” The two-part series skillfully presents the events of Simone’s withdrawal from all but one of...
by Cally Chisholm | Jul 30, 2021 | Opinion
Gymnast Kerri Strug completed her vault routine with a painful injury – two torn ligaments in her ankle – at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Despite the United States’ guaranteed gold medal chances, her coach Béla Károlyi pushed her to vault again at risk of...
