![]() The request brought together a group of New Yorkers to help Andy feel safe and comfortable while waiting for his cousin. "I was afraid to ask people walking around so I asked the Reddit AskNYC." "I went to the Library and restaurants and when it got dark, my cousin told me to wait for him on a street, but I wasn’t sure where to wait, and I got nervous," he later told Upworthy. A teenager under those conditions should have been protected, and told 'No medal is worth the risk of permanent injury.' In fact, we now know that Strug's vault wasn't even necessary to clinch the gold the U.S. But since the last Olympics we've also learned these athletes were put into positions where they could be systematically abused both emotionally and physically, all while being inundated with 'win at all costs' messaging. I'm sure people will say 'Kerri Strug was a competitor-she WANTED to push through the injury.' That's probably true. ![]() And he got what he wanted a gold medal that was more important to him than his athlete's health. Instead, Bela Karolyi told Strug to vault again. Coach Karolyi should have gotten his visibly injured athlete medical help immediately! Now that I have two young daughters in gymnastics, I expect their safety to be the coach's number one priority. The more the thought echoed, the stronger my realization became. I made some inane reply about the heart of a champion or Olympic spirit, but in the back of my mind a thought was festering: *She shouldn't have jumped again* 'Why did she jump again if she was hurt?' one of my girls asked.
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