The Dark Side of the "Magnificent Seven" Olympic Team

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]That's not going to work well in a team.

[00:00:01]If you would have gone to our practices before the start of the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, you would have heard a pin drop. Why?

[00:00:09]We wouldn't have been cheering for one another. I didn't want Shannon Miller to stay on the balance beam. I never saw her fall off the balance beam. I didn't want Kerri Strug to perform a a spectacular vault in practice.

[00:00:23]I didn't want Moceanu to turn it on for the crowd on the floor and get nearly a a perfect 10 in practice. I wanted to beat my teammates and that's how each and every one of us felt. We had large inflated egos.