Do What You Know How to Do: Jaycie Phelps, Magnificent Seven Olympic Champion
Jaycie Phelps did not make a single routine in warm-ups at the Olympic Games. Then she led off for the Magnificent Seven.
She was sixteen, first up on the night the United States won its first Olympic team gold in gymnastics. What her coach Mary Lee Tracy said to her in the seconds before she saluted is the title of this episode, and it is still the sentence she coaches from thirty years later.
The rest of the conversation is what came after. Three knee surgeries, including a cadaver meniscus transplant no gymnast had ever had, and a doctor who told her she would never compete again before…
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