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Kerri Strug triumphs against the odds to win Team USA's first gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Strug is hailed as an American hero when she completes her final vault at the Atlanta games on a badly injured ankle to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Strug is carried onto the medals podium to join her team, after which she is treated at a hospital for tendon damage. She becomes an instant national hit, visiting President Clinton, appearing on various talk shows, and making the cover of Sports Illustrated.
The story of Kerri Strung, a member of the 1996 American gymnastics team dubbed “the Magnificent Seven.”
After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, a young teen joins the Navy and is sent on a secret mission to guard German POWs during which time he teaches the enemy soldiers how to play baseball.
An NFL coach gets fired, moves back to his small Texas hometown and decides to coach his daughter's all-girl football team in an all-boy's league.
Betty Robinson sets an unofficial world record in the 100-meter at the age of 16. At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, running in just her fourth official 100-meter race, Robinson wins gold — the first gold medal awarded to a woman in track and field at the Olympics. In 1931, tragedy strikes when Robinson is involved in a terrible plane crash. It takes her two years to learn to walk again, and, incredibly, she is able to make the U.S. team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
A veteran NFL quarterback winds up on a semi-pro team in Italy after blowing his last chance to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
Set in Gaffney, S.C., a woman is thrown off a clogging dance team by her two-timing boyfriend-coach. She then scrapes together a ragtag team to compete for the national clogging championship, finding love along the way.
Just when a boxing trainer's life is about to spin out of control, a young Latino boxer comes into his life.
The small town of Paradise, CA, is ravaged by the Camp Fire of 2018 but finds hope in its high school football team and longtime coach, Rick Prinz.
Danny Huston plays Max Stoller, a Holocaust survivor who, after coaching Tel Aviv to victory in the European basketball championships, gets a call to train the German national team. Despite public outrage in Israel, he agrees and arrives in Frankfurt where he is confronted by the memories of his childhood.
Just when a boxing trainer's life is about to spin out of control, a young Latino boxer comes into his life.
A professional hockey player experiences what it is like to be a summer intern at "Vogue" magazine.