With the Winter Olympics and Black History Month in full effect, it’s only right that we highlight trailblazer Dominique Dawes, who made history in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.. She became the ...

Gymnast Dominique Dawes won medals at three Olympic games, 1992, 1996, and 2000. One of Dawes' teammates in the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Jamie Dantzscher, is one of the dozens of women who have ...

Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes, part of the “Magnificent Seven” team during the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, spoke about the mental challenges of competition in the wake of Simone ...

Dawes competed at three Olympic Games throughout her career, earning bronze in the team all-arounds in Barcelona in 1992 and Sydney in 2000, as well as winning a team gold in Atlanta in 1996.

When Dominique Dawes competed in the Olympic trials for the 1992 Barcelona Games, ... including a historic team gold medal with the “Magnificent Seven” at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

11Alive's Jennifer Bellamy sat down with Dawes, a three-time Olympian, four-time Olympic medalist and the first African-American to win an individual medal in Olympic gymnastics.

Four-time Olympic medalist Dominique Dawes says she relates to Biles’ statement. Dawes was the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in gymnastics — a bronze in floor ...

Gymnast Dominique Dawes of the USA, a medalist at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, poses outside Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14, 1996. (Doug Pensinger /Allsport) ...

Dominique Dawes competed with the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team in 1992, 1996 and 2000, ... Simone Biles returns to the Olympics, wins bronze medal on balance beam. August 3, 2021.

“When I think about the Olympic Games, it brings me back to the level of sacrifice and commitment and what it took to earn a spot on that Olympic stage,” Dawes said. “We did what was told of us.

Dawes noted that the situation is an “emotional roller-coaster” not only for Chiles, but also for Barbosu. “[Jordan] actually did have that Olympic medal ceremony experience.A lot of ...