‘Failure Is Just an Opportunity for Growth’: How 1996 Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medalist Dominque Dawes Survived and Thrived As a Small Business Owner During the Pandemic

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Before establishing a trio of eponymous gymnastics and ninja training academies, Dominique Dawes was a standout member of 1996’s iconic “Magnificent Seven” — the first USA women’s gymnastics squad to clinch Olympic gold.

During those Games, Dawes also earned a bronze in the floor exercise, becoming the first female African American gymnast to medal in an individual event. But ever the competitor, Dawes thinks about what could have been. She says she made her greatest athletic mistake during that floor routine: a slip in front of three billion viewers that cost her the gold. Decades later, Dawes has transformed that embarrassing

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