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Kobe Bryant Scores Again
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Kobe Bryant Scores Again
Kobe Bryant Scores Again
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Dominique Moceanu was expected to be a major medal threat at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. However, following the 1996 U.S. Nationals, where she placed third in the all-around, she was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her right tibia.Her injury forced her to sit out the Olympic Trials, and she was petitioned onto the team on the strength of her Nationals scores.
At the Olympics, still struggling with her injury and sporting a heavily bandaged leg, Moceanu contributed to the team gold medal by turning in strong performances, good enough to qualify her for the event finals on balance beam and floor exercise. However, she faltered in the last rotation of team optionals, falling on both vaults and forcing the U.S. chances of a gold medal to rest solely on teammate Kerri Strug’s final vault. With Strug injuring herself in the successful attempt, Moceanu took her place in the all-around finals. Unfortunately, mistakes cost Moceanu a medal there, and she placed ninth. In the balance beam event final, Moceanu fell when she missed a foot on a layout and crashed into the balance beam on her head. She finished the exercise and went on to a strong performance in the floor finals later that day, finishing fourth and just missing a medal.
Jamaican runner, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, defeats USA champion Carmelita Jeter by 3 hundredth of a second in the Women’s 100meter in the London Olympics. Veronica Campbell Brown, from Jamaica, took the Bronze medal.
In 1994 at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway, Gordeeva/Grinkov took advantage of a one-time rule change that allowed professional skaters to regain their Olympic eligibility. They won their second gold medal, the only reinstated skaters to win gold.
L.A. LAKERS KOBE BRYANT HAS A FEW WORDS WITH BOSTON PATRIOTS HEAD COACH PRIOR TO THE NBA FINALS WITH THE CELTICS. UNFORTUNATELY, KOBE DID NOT REFLECT THE SAME INTENSITY OF FEELING DURING THE GAME AS HE DID PRIOR TO THE GAME. THE L.A. LAKERS LOST BY 39 POINTS.