Olympic Gold Medalist Works At Department of Justice

Where do Olympians work after the games? Apparently, the DOJ.

Kerri Strug (Not pictured: Béla Károlyi holding her up to the camera)

Kerri Strug (Not pictured: Béla Károlyi holding her up to the camera)

Somewhere buried in the 300 handball matches, synchronized trampoline competitions, and watching Ryan Lochte become more famous than Michael Phelps, we learned a little nugget about an Olympic hero of days gone by. Apparently Kerri Strug works at the Justice Department now. Per the National Law Journal:

For about seven years, one of the most celebrated athletes of the 1996 Atlanta Games and a star of the Magnificent Seven worked in Chinatown, at an office of the U.S. Justice Department administering grants for juvenile justice programs. She still works in a career program manager position for the office, managing more than three dozen grantees, but now from her hometown of Tucson, Arizona.

Sure, that makes sense. The roots of juvenile delinquency are often found in abuse, and who better to speak to childhood abuse than a woman forced to endure grueling, physically stunting training for over a decade, before 300 million people pressured her to jump six feet in the air and land on a severely strained leg for our amusement?

Gold Medal Gymnast Kerri Strug Vaulted to Career at DOJ [National Law Journal]


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