'She's a machine:' Figure skater Bradie Tennell suddenly a gold medal contender
When she was 10, Bradie Tennell was with her coach at a skating competition when they heard a mom talking to her daughter.
"The mom said, 'That Bradie Tennell, she'll never beat you,' " Tennell's longtime coach, Denise Myers, recalled. "I was with Bradie and I turned to her and said: 'Don't worry about it. You can't control that. You just be the best you can be.' "
Tennell won that competition.
The soft-spoken athlete competes in a powder-blue sequined ensemble to a delicate song titled "Cinderella."
But make no mistake: She's a fighter.
"I'm always striving to be better," Tennell said.
