At the 1976 Olympics, the Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto horrified the world by continuing to compete in the team event despite breaking his knee during the floor exercise. Determined not to let down ...

In the warm Mexico night, John Stephen Akhwari came hobbling into Olympic Stadium. A vast arena, which had been full of fans deliriously cheering the marathon champion 90 minutes earlier, was nearly ...

Most people find broken bones painful. But not Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto, who went to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal just to prove that he was rock-f***ing-solid. During his floor routine, ...

ATLANTA — She couldn’t call timeout. If Kerri Strug had been a basketball player, there would have been a trainer rushing on to the court and a chance to test her injured ankle. If she were a tennis ...

100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC GLORY (Turner, $29.98, not rated) 1996. Directed by Bud Greenspan. How can one not be awe-struck by the courage and determination of Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto, who, in the ...

There are always winning performances in Olympic gymnastics, but how often are those 'perfect' performances? Olympic judges, like teachers, do not really like giving full marks. But this was not the ...