When a Dream Doesn’t Die, It Waits: Lori Vollkommer’s Journey Back to Herself
United States, 4th Apr 2026 – Broken to Unbreakable: The Comeback I Never Saw Coming is not a story about medals. It is a story about identity, loss, and the courage to begin again when life takes something you love away.
In her deeply personal memoir, Lori Vollkommer invites readers into the quiet spaces between ambition and heartbreak, resilience and grief, discipline and healing. Once a devoted young gymnast with Olympic dreams, Lori’s athletic journey came to an abrupt halt at sixteen after a devastating spinal injury ended her career without warning or closure. What followed was not just the loss of a sport, but the loss of a self she had spent her childhood becoming.
For decades, Lori carried that silence with her while building a full life beyond the gym. She became a wife, a mothe...
