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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/sports/olympics/biles-gymnastics-injuries.html?pageType=LegacyCollection&collectionName=toyko-olympic-gymnastics&label=toyko-olympic-gymnastics&module=hub_Band&region=inline&template=storyline_band_recirc
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After Biles withdrew, some critics compared her unfavorably to Kerri Strug, who — the popular narrative goes — secured the team gold medal for the United States at the 1996 Olympics by vaulting on an injured ankle. The suggestion was that Biles ought to have done the same for the team.

But Strug performed that vault under pressure from her coach, it injured her ankle further, and the U.S. would have won without it. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times shortly afterward, she said that if she had known her vault wasn’t necessary, she wouldn’t have done it.

“Everybody was yelling at me, ‘Come on, you can do it!’” she said. “But I’m out there saying to myself: ‘My leg, my leg. You don’t understand. Something’s really wrong here.’”

Strug, who never competed again, tweeted a message of support for Biles on Tuesday.
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+1 If another country had forced their athlete to compete injured the way Strug was forced, we'd be sanctimoniously criticizing them for abusing a teenager[/quote]

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