The Paris Games are right around the corner, which means Olympic gymnastics will be here before we know it! We wanted to take the time to sit down and reminisce on our Olympic memories and collegiate Olympians.
What’s your earliest Olympic memory?
Elizabeth: While I was alive for Atlanta and conscious for Sydney, the first Olympics I was really into was Athens. I remember bringing my gymnastics highlights DVD to team camp for us to watch during lunch, trying to get all my teammates as into it as I was.
Emma: I remember watching Gabby Douglas win all-around gold in London, albeit in hazy flashes since it was so long ago. Gymnastics definitely didn’t have me hooked at that point because I was in fourth grade, but Gabby was the talk of the school for weeks.
Aaron: My earliest memory is watching the team final in 2012 and being mesmerized by Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber on vault. At the time, I was too young to appreciate the beauty of Mckayla Maroney’s vault, but I remember being inspired by all five girls on the London team.
Katie: Sydney 2000. I had a poster of Svetlana Khorkina on my bedroom wall from International Gymnast magazine. My mum had set the VHR to record the gymnastics events that were being televised overnight, and I remember being so excited to…
