Both won the team gold medal, but the Fab Five are already one up with an individual all-around gold medal. Here's a look at a comparison between the two teams with a final analysis over who truly is the best.
Gabrielle Douglas is the gold medalist in the individual all-around and will be competing in the individual final for the balance beam and uneven bars. She's continually getting stronger with each routine and has to be considered a favorite to medal in those two events.
Aly Raisman is coming off a disappointing fourth-place finish in the individual all-around, but will be competing in the beam and floor finals. Her surprising finish in qualifications put her on the world map and gave the U.
Jordyn Wieber won the individual all-around at the world championships, but she fell short of finishing in the top two for the U. However, she will compete in the floor finals, going for the individual gold she covets. McKayla Maroney is simply the best vaulter in the world, sticking her landings and being technically superior to every other gymnast in the world.
Kyla Ross, while not at the forefront of U. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Scott Davis. Jalen Rose was the leading scorer for the Wolverines, and perhaps the embodiment of the swagger with which the team played.
Chris Webber averaged 15 points per game for the Wolverines in the season and was one of the most dominant big men in college basketball. He is now an analyst for TNT. Juwan Howard was the team's third-leading scorer, averaging 11 points per game. Howard played 19 seasons in the NBA and has been an assistant coach with the Miami Heat for five seasons. Jimmy King was the team's shooting guard and hit a lethal King played just two years in the NBA.
Phelps and Borden visited the Olympic Park wearing disguises, baseball hats and sunglasses covering their faces.
Someone eventually asked Borden if there was anything left in her life to accomplish. She was They were children, really, if not in age, then in life experience. They had spent their formative years holed up inside gymnasiums, preparing for the Olympics, but it hit with a force that none of them could have anticipated.
Fans sent so many flowers to the frat house that bouquets lined the staircase. Boxes of letters sat unopened on the porch. News outlets across the world wanted interviews. Meanwhile, there was Moceanu in the kitchen, holding brownies in both hands. She had never enjoyed a brownie before. In the aftermath, while the security detail took the gymnasts to Dairy Queen for Blizzards, commercial interests assumed a primary role.
The U. The majority of them believed the gymnasts needed to put off college and tour right away. The celebrity spin cycle had already started to alter their paths, even as the gymnasts themselves remained relatively unsophisticated.
The tour ballooned from 34 cities to more than 90 performances, and the gymnasts traversed the country in their own bus, rock star contortionists performing their Olympic routines to sold-out crowds. Moceanu ate French toast at every opportunity. They went shopping, compared malls.
Those wacky little gymnasts! Six of them, anyway. Strug did a separate tour on weekends, attending UCLA during the week. She eventually joined the others, but a schism had developed. But she came into stardom. Little junk food. Minimal social interaction outside of gymnastics. To various extents, they all were. As the gymnasts shifted in back into lives that were no longer normal, Strug was the first to try to distance herself from Olympic renown.
Strug, meanwhile, wanted to relate to everyday Americans. She had always been shy and sheltered, and she craved a normal college experience after everything settled down. Her parents pushed her to attend UCLA immediately, a decision that she came to agree with only after she lived outside her bubble. On some level, all seven young women identified and wrestled with the same themes, especially right after their tours ended in late They weighed capitalizing on their newfound fame against moving into the rest of their lives, and they transitioned at different speeds.
Some felt more at ease around celebrities than in typical social situations. Prince summoned Dawes to his suburban Minnesota mansion, and when she arrived, in November , he offered her something to drink.
She asked for hot chocolate, and Prince made her some Swiss Miss. In the video she would play a freestyle dancer, but being a gymnast, she struggled to perform anything beyond a planned routine.
Prince ended up hiring a choreographer for her. Moceanu, for her part, carried her vault failure with her for years. Dimitry Moceanu had emigrated from Romania to Houston, where he owned a car dealership and dabbled in real estate. He wanted nothing more than for his daughter to become an Olympic champion, but he pushed her with anger and rage and sometimes, she says, with physical abuse.
Exercises, she says, lasted for hours and were held outside, in punishing temperatures, with no food or water. She was not yet 14, and she weighed less than a Doberman. But I chose to stay there. They made me mentally tough. In , Moceanu retired from gymnastics, another medalist in search of a more standard life. Little did she know Strug decided to study abroad in , the next Olympic year, electing to enroll in Semester at Sea. Her gymnastics career had taken her everywhere and nowhere—everywhere in that she traveled the world, competing in dozens of countries; nowhere in that wherever she journeyed, she wore a path from the hotel to the gym and back.
She never actually saw anything. Her athletic career had been scheduled to the minute. But in Semester at Sea, on a boat that docked at various countries to take in different cultures, Strug could do whatever she wanted.
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