Wednesday’s was an Olympic-sized reunion for Olivia Dunn and three-time gold medalist Aly Riseman.
On Thursday, Dunn, a member of the Lady Tigers who is in the semifinals of the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships, took to Instagram to take a photo with the former gymnast and former ESPN commentator for the first time in about 12 years. encounter.
“Guys…I touched Aly Raisman again!” Dunn wrote in response to a new photo of him and Raisman that the LSU star posted on Instagram in August 2012, writing, “I can’t believe I touched Aly Raisman. !!!!!” she captioned it.
The photo appears to have been taken just weeks after Riseman competed in the 2012 London Olympics, where she won two gold medals in the floor exercise and team event, and a bronze medal on the balance beam.
She won six Olympic medals during her career, and three more at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. She won one gold medal in the team event and two silver medals in the individual all-around and floor exercise.
Riseman, now 29, retired from competitive gymnastics in January 2020 and moved into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Dan is nearing the end of his senior year at LSU and preparing for his next chapter after college.
The student-athlete and social media titan, who boasts 13 million followers between his Instagram and TikTok pages, celebrated LSU’s fifth SEC Championship win last month, leading the Tigers to the team’s best record in the championship. He scored 198.075 points, which is comparable to . According to the program’s website.
“There’s a 100% chance that purple will reign,” Dan, 21, gushed on Instagram.
The No. 2 nationally ranked Tigers will face the University of California, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas in the first session of the championship semifinals on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas.
The teams that placed first and second in session one will join the top two teams from the second session of the semifinals (Alabama, Florida, Utah and No. 1-ranked Arkansas) in Sunday’s NCAA Championship final.
LSU finished fourth at the NCAA Championships last April.
