In 1985 I made the USA World Championships Gymnastics Team. I placed 3rd at the Trials, my highest placement to date as a young gymnast.
At Worlds, on my 8th and final event I fell. It was a devastating fall. I missed a release move and tumbled to the ground. My right foot was stuck while my body spun around the knee. I knew it was bad. I screamed, or thought I did. No one came. It felt like forever on the raised platform, no coach, no trainer, no doctor while I writhed.
Eventually my coach realized I wasn't getting back up. They rushed to me. The trainer thought my knee was dislocated and he attempted to push it back in place. It wasn't dislocated though. My femur was broken - we didn't know that yet - and he was pushing bone against bone.
My dad joined me in the ambulance. I remember sobbing -- "What am I going to do now? I don't know how to do anything else. This is all I want to do."
He cried too. We assumed my career was over. He said: "You can do anything you want to do. You're smart and you can be anything you want to be. You're just getting started." He was right in so many ways.
But all I wanted then was to be a gymnast.
I was taken to the nearest hospital and rushed into surgery. It was a French speaking hospital and we didn't fully understand what anyone was telling us.
When I came out of surgery a doctor who spoke English told us "It was a broken femur. Not her knee." We cheered. We were all so happy. My coaches, my parents, me. Bones often heal better than joints.
I left Canada on crutches with a full leg cast. When I got home to Pennsylvania, my doctor changed the cast to a lighter one, with a hinge at the knee. And I went back to the gym. I started training right away.
8 months later, in June 1986, I walked into the arena in Indianapolis for USA Championships. No one thought I'd be there. Everyone thought I was done. Forever.
I knew I wasn't done. Not yet.
I won. I became the National Champion less than a year after breaking my femur on the world's stage.
Never give up. Never.
"Gamer chuds would hate it if they found Amy was making Uncharted today" weird because it was only the chuds complaining that they got rid of her, the only ones who even reported on it at the time. Whilst everyone else was too busy felating the 'visionary' man who took her place.
Leftists chant "F*ck Erika Kirk!" outside of the @TPUSA Women's Leadership Summit after protesters charged and pushed police, attempting to break through the security perimeter.
Chicago Democrats Just FUMBLED an Entire NFL Team to Indiana.
100 Years of History Gone. Running a City This Badly Isn’t an Accident.
Indiana is getting a brand new Bears stadium.
And Chicago gets to keep its crime, its taxes, and its $400M taxpayer funded Obama DEI trash can nobody asked for.
This is what decades of Democrat mismanagement does.
Businesses leave.
Teams leave.
People leave.
They'll blame everyone but themselves.
Indiana wins. Chicago loses. Again.
WHAT⁉️🤬 This will be a “no-go zone” and frankly triggers the Insurrection Act. This must be stopped. There should be immediate focus on deporting illegal muslims starting with the Somalians and Omar. @realDonaldTrump@marklevinshow
In 1979, the mullahs tortured the Shah's favourite horse to death.
The horse, Azar, was paraded in the streets. They broke his legs, cut his tongue out, and then shot him in the head in front of a large crowd.
Iran is occupied by demons from hell.
California McDonald's employee is recovering after an unprovoked coworker threw hot oiI on him
The assailant then fled the scene.
The local CA media framed the attacker as 'missing at risk man'
Meanwhile, Mainstream Media is SILENT.
This story needs to be shared everywhere.
McDonald's should step up for Jacob Smith, 20, a star employee who worked his way up to a manager position.
Jacob is now facing skin graft surgery.
Suffering the most severe pain in his fingertips, according to mom Amber Smith, after raising his hand to shield his face from the hot oiI.
Jacob has plans to for marriage in February.
Prayers for your speedy recovery Jacob.
The mendacity on display from CNN here is genuinely shocking. Worth watching to see just how dishonest these people are.
Rob Bluey said very basic true things about the entirely debunked Russian collusion hoax, and judging by the reaction, you’d think he had just sprinkled holy water on a bunch of vampires.
🚨BREAKING: A new federal lawsuit accuses California Secretary of State Shirley Weber of violating federal law by failing to clean up inactive voter registrations that should have been removed years ago.
The shocking numbers:
- 873,092 registrations inactive for at least 2 general federal elections
- 326,808 inactive for at least 3
- 151,202 inactive for at least 4
- 33,922 inactive for at least 5 — some dating back before 2016
These “ghost voters” remain on the rolls despite clear federal requirements to maintain accurate lists. This is exactly why election integrity matters.
Time for real accountability in California. Clean voter rolls = fair elections. This was filed by Judicial Watch end of May You saw the headlines ( or did you)?
Invaders have been rioting in the home of the EU, Brussels for days now, and the legacy media are silent on it.
They'll still keep telling DIEversity is your strength as they kill and destroy everything around you.
Liberal members of the old Pentagon press corps had a conniption fit last week when he took Mrs. Hegseth to Singapore.
So this week he took the kids too.
The American family is so back. 🇺🇸
People coping about context as an excuse for why she annihilates innocent people in a bar. Just like Captain Marvel did when told to smile.
Context makes it worse 🤣
In the room he wasn't a "journalist" covering 60 Minutes.
He was an employee being insubordinate and undermining the authority of those above him in the management structure.
The extent to which "journalists" believe norms of workplace behavior don't apply to them is greatly amusing.
"Hit the road Jack. We'll box up you personal belongings and have them delivered."