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Golden Girl: How Natalie Coughlin Fought Back, Challenged Conventional Wisdom, and Became America's Olympic Champion
This isn’t too surprising to anyone who has been a faithful reader of his sports coverage and columns at Sports Illustrated. He’s one of those writers who knows how to find the heart of a sport and pump its energy into the fans.
It’s perhaps for this reason that several premier athletes of the sports that Silver covers have trusted him to write their stories. He’s written books for such athletes as Dennis Rodman, Kurt Warner, and Jerry Rice—all three of them very different sorts of men.
His latest book, released in May , turns from professional sports into the world of the Olympics and college athletics. Golden Girl is the story of Natalie Coughlin, a swimmer par excellence who brought home five medals from the Olympics.
It’s a book with a long subtitle, a subtitle that broadcasts the theme that will show up in every chapter of the book: How Natalie Coughlin Fought Back, Challenged Conventional Wisdom, and Became America’s Olympic Champion. Silver sinks his teeth into the theme of Natalie doing things her own way and spins his tale around that theme.
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It was the first time Chris Gonzalez left the women volleyball players he was coaching at the University of Idaho speechless.
It wouldn’t be the last time.
Gonzalez, hired only weeks earlier, was frustrated and then enraged with how a drill was proceeding in a practice in the spring of , according to five people familiar with the incident. Finally, Gonzalez kicked a player out of the drill and took her place. When the drill still didn’t go as Gonzalez expected, he shoved a player over, knocking her to the ground, according to five people.
“He physically pushed a player,” said Travel Morris, an Idaho middle blocker who participated in the drill. “Like physically in a very, bullying way, he literally told her to move and then pushed her and she fell to the floor.
“He said, ‘Move!’ and just pushed her, like completely just pushed her over,” Morris said. “He pushed her quite aggressively.”
“Everybody looked confused. As soon as it happened everybody on the court looked at each other like, ‘Did he really just do that?’ We all just froze.”
The incident is part of a pattern of alleged abuse by Gonzalez, a former U.S. national team coach, outlined to the Southern California News Group by si