GOLDEN GIRL
‘WHEN WE SAW THAT SHE WON IT, I COULDN’T EVEN FIND THE RIGHT WORDS TO SAY HOW HAPPY, HOW PROUD I AM OF HER’
THE sun had not yet risen when she got out of bed and made her way to her neighbourhood’s community centre to join about 300 friends and relatives at a party to watch the individual all-around gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics.
Decades earlier, Yeev Thoj had watched gymnast Shannon Miller lead Team USA to a gold medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and a thought had crossed her mind. “Maybe someday if I have a kid, she’ll do gymnastics and go to the Olympics.”
And here Yeev
