RIO DE JANEIRO – She’s been part of the first U.S. teams to win back-to-back Olympic gymnastics gold, captaining both of them. She’s an all-around silver medalist. She’s been the gymnast Martha Karolyi has trusted for years.
But as she nears what is very likely the end of her gymnastics career, Aly Raisman has flown under the radar despite assembling one of the best Olympic resumes of any American gymnast.
With five Olympic medals, she is tied with Nastia Liukin and Mary Lou Retton as the second-most decorated American gymnasts of all time. With a medal on floor exercise – an event she won gold on in London – Raisman would be alone in second and just one behind Shannon Miller.