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Bela Karolyi, coach of Olympic champion gymnasts who was criticized after Nassar scandal, dies at 82
Read full article: Bela Karolyi, coach of Olympic champion gymnasts who was criticized after Nassar scandal, dies at 82Bela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power, has died.
Summer of Women: Females stole the show at 1996 Olympics
Read full article: Summer of Women: Females stole the show at 1996 OlympicsIt remains the biggest jump at a single Olympics in the number of women competitors. Both wound up being two of the most popular sports at the Atlanta Games. On the other side of that curtain, the U.S. captured its first team gold medal in women's gymnastics with a group that became known as the Magnificent Seven. Then, for the gold medal game, I heard they were scalping tickets. You had some of the biggest, tallest women in the Olympics, and some of the shortest women in the Olympics going by each other.All of them stood tall in Atlanta.