Friday was a decent day for Team USA in the ladies' three-meter springboard jumping occasion at the Tokyo Olympics. 18-year-old Hailey Hernandez completed fifth in the primers, effectively progressing to the elimination round, while Krysta Palmer just got it done with a fifteenth spot finish. 

On Saturday, the American team hoped to punch their pass to the gold decoration last. 

After a harsh beginning to her Summer Games, Palmer — who completed eighth in the synchronized three-meter springboard with accomplice Alison Gibson — not really settled to have her Olympic second. In the elimination rounds, she enhanced her prior presentation in a significant manner, logging her two greatest scores of the individual contest. 

She thusly completed the round in the fifth spot and progressed to the occasion last. 

While she's striving to get through in Tokyo, the 29-year-old Palmer is unquestionably used to the battle. Her street to try and get to the Olympics was downright a fight. 

Here are five quick realities you need to think about Palmer… 

1. Palmer Suffered Major Injuries While Competing in Different Sports 

As a youngster, the Carson City, Nevada local was an acrobat. And keeping in mind that her support in the game was a decent method to keep her from "somersaulting off the sofa," as handed-off by Team USA's Karen Rosen, it brought about an uncommon injury for somebody of her age. 

At only 12 years of age, Palmer had to go through her first medical procedure subsequent to tearing the patellar ligament of her left knee on a tumbling pass. 

Afterward, Palmer turned into a significant level contender on the trampoline. It was through that sport that she previously ended up focusing on an Olympic group spot.

Be that as it may, she smothered her right knee on two separate events, tearing her ACL, MCL, and LCL. 

She later had hip issues too. 

2. She's a Member of the Iron Butt Association 

Almost 10 years before she became one of those uncommon competitors to contend in the Olympics, Palmer joined another select gathering. Specifically, the Iron Butt Association (IBA). 

Shaped in 1984, the IBA is a free relationship of cruiser riders who have partaken in something like one of the various significant distance rides. The base is the 1,000-mile Saddle Sore, a distance that should be shrouded in 24 hours or less. 

For Palmer's situation, she rode 1,200 miles behind her dad on June 10, 2012. As the pair crossed the distance, they needed to hit assigned areas, "lurking around memorial parks in the evening and taking selfies close to street signs." 

"It was really wild," Palmer said, by means of Rosen. "It was fundamentally a forager chase on a bike. Iron Butt is valid in light of the fact that it is excruciating sitting on a bike for very nearly 24 hours." 

3. Palmer Is a Fixture of the UNR Diving Program 

As a university jumper, Palmer discovered significant accomplishments with the University of Nevada, Reno Wolf Pack. Also, her relationship with the school proceeds with today. 

Her lesser season with the Wolf Pack was truly outstanding in Nevada history. First, she caught three titles at the Mountain West Conference Championships.

From that point, Palmer progressed to the 2015 NCAA Championships, turning into an All-American respectable notice. 

The next year, she caught the 2015-16 Ruth Russell Award, perceiving Nevada's top senior female understudy competitor. Palmer got the honor subsequent to driving her group to an ideal 10-0 double record and catching the principal meeting title in program history. 

She likewise achieved All-Mountain West and NCAA All-American decent notice status, just as a second-consecutive Diver of the Year assignment in her meeting. 

Subsequent to graduating with a degree in kinesiology, she changed to a job as a volunteer partner mentor. 

4. Her Grandfather Was Also a High-Level, Multi-Sport Athlete 

Palmer isn't the lone first-rate competitor to emerge from her family circle. Her granddad, Norman Palmer, was comparatively complex.

Per his 2014 eulogy, he turned out to be New England's most youthful Class A ski racer at only 14 years of age. It was noted in Krysta's Team USA bio that he in the long run procured a spot in the US public ski group. 

He was additionally an expert baseball player, spending a brief time frame in the Minor League positions. 

Norman was a gifted golf player also. For a very long time, he was the everyday playing golf accomplice of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He later composed a book about his fellowship with the president, "Five Star Golf." 

5. Palmer Found Her Way as a Fledgling Diver With the Help of a Top Coach 

Palmer didn't authoritatively make the progress to jumping until 2012. Before then, at that point, the last time she had plunged was the point at which she was only 12 years of age, per the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Be that as it may, her experience in trampoline and vaulting demonstrated importance in taking the leap. 

Besides, she had the assistance of a first-class mentor in Jian Li You at UNR. 

Herself a previous jumper and individual from the Chinese Olympic Team in 1980, You is a nine-time meeting Coach of the Year in the Mountain West and WAC.

She additionally prepared incredible jumpers like Olympic gold medalist Fu Mingxia, Tan Luengdai, Su Suwi, Lon Wei, and Americans Becky Ruehl, Mary Ellen Clark, Scott Donie, and Dave Pichler. 

"Having the option to meet Jian Li has been a gift," Palmer told the Gazette-Journal. "She's in a real sense the best mentor in the country."

"She's truly assembled me. It resembles building another vehicle. She's constructed me as a jumper. She has a particularly remarkable character."

"She's all business when you're at the pool, which is extraordinary. She's actual specialized. At the point when you're outside of the pool, she's your closest companion. Truly, having the option to make her glad makes me so cheerful."