How much pain, only she truly knows. But let's just say the ankle injury the Gym Dog senior battled through was to such an extreme that most men would have stayed home to be nursed in bed by their wives or mothers. C'mon, men, admit it. Whether it's a hangnail or common cold, men want to be babied.
Women just have to persevere.
Lichey did much more than that in the final meet of her career. Georgia's Kristi Lichey scored a 9.95 on the vault Friday. She was in pain every step and every time she had to land. I'm glad I wasn't in her position because I don't know if I could have done what she did. Lichey re-injured her right ankle while landing on the vault during UGA's last event of the team competition Thursday.