Part of the tension of watching the Olympics is knowing a single misstep could cost an athlete the competition — or sometimes, worse. During the women’s gymnastics vault event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 18-year-old U.S. National Champion Elise Ray came inches from sustaining life-threatening injuries when she sprinted down the 25-meter runway, rocketed off the springboard but essentially missed the vault, barely grazing it with her fingertips before flipping flat onto her back on the other side. It was a heart-stopping fall, and it wasn’t a fluke. Nearly...
- 7/26/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
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