What to know about the Olympic wrestling gold medalist NBC Bay Area [Video]

The best female athlete we’ve ever seen.

That is how David Miller describes 20-year-old Amit Elor, Walnut Creek’s Olympic gold medalist in wrestling. Miller, who has been Elor’s strength and conditioning coach for the past decade, said he saw something special in her when she was just 10 years old.

“I looked at her and I asked her ‘What’s a little girl want to wrestle for? Why do you want to wrestle?’ And she looked at me with the most determined eyes and she said ‘I want to win the Olympics.’ I looked over at her mother and said I’ll train her,” Miller said.

Miller was in Paris to watch Elor accomplish her dream, becoming the youngest American wrestler – man or woman – to win an Olympic gold medal. He called it the moment of his coaching career.

“To be there in person and watch that is pure emotion,” he said. “It’s just joy.”

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