Shannon Miller is the second most decorated gymnast in U.S. history with seven gold medals.

With 59 International and 49 National competition medals, Miller is the only female athlete to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, twice.

Miller won two silver and three bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. “For me it was incredible, looking back on it in 1992,” Shannon Miller told me on Scoop B Radio.

“I was 15 years old, so I was a baby so just to make it on the team was incredible. I had broken and dislocated my elbow like ten weeks before trials so to even be on the team was incredible and to go to Barcelona and walk into that arena and just be able to hit all my routines and go home with medals was fantastic.”

Four years later, the world became keenly aware of Miller’s super talents when she led the “Magnificent Seven” team that captured gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

The “Magnificent Seven” which included Miller, along with Dominique Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Kerri Strug, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden, and Jaycie Phelps is perhaps best known for Strug sticking the landing of a vault to clinch the gold medal while injured.

“Being able to carry that over four years later which athletes, especially gymnasts know is so difficult,” said Miller.

“Because you’re in the prime of your career and to keep it going for four more years for another Olympics was so incredible and Atlanta was amazing.”

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