Top Olympic Mom Moments

By now, you've probably seen the amazing video of gymnastics team and floor champ Aly Raisman's parents Lynn and Rick shouting and contorting as they watch her prelims bar routine. The show didn't stop there: During floor finals, an unlucky man seated behind the Raismans hilariously asks them to sit down during their daughter's routine. Aly wasn't embarrassed—via Twitter, she commented "I love my parents." Lynn and Rick also responded with humor.

After Walsh Jennings won a historic third consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball with partner Misty May-Treanor, the mom to boys Joey, 3, and Sundance, 2, spoke about her future. "I want more kids and I want to … win a gold medal in Rio," she told iVillage. After a second gold, her husband told her she gets a kid for each gold medal. "So we’ve got to get to work, and I’m so excited. I’m ready.”

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Natalie and daughter Gabby Douglas—gymnastics darling and all-around champ—talked with ESPN about the big win, including the reaction to Gabby's hair. "It's definitely a mother-and-daughter moment," said Gabby. "'Don't mess with my baby,' she would say. … You need that in your life. … It means they love you so much." Her Iowa "mom" Missy Parton was also in the stands to cheer her on.

Gold medalist in the cycling time trial for the second straight Olympics, Armstrong had added inspiration this time around: her son Lucas, 22 months. One of the Games' iconic moments was Lucas in his mom's arms on the podium as she received her medal. To make it happen, her husband Joe Savola had to navigate an obstacle course of his own, talking his way through several layers of security to make it to the podium in time.

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Get a hanky ready and watch this video, made partway through the competition, of the single mom and her son, Ashton, the decathlon gold-medalist. It was one of the first big meets Roslyn attended—and she wasn't disappointed. Promptly after, this equally tear-jerking commercial premiered.

One of the cutest moments of the Games came during the 400m hurdles semifinal, when Demus's 5-year-old twin boys Duaine and Dohntay could be heard yelling "go mommy" at the top of their lungs. Demus, who's spoken candidly about her post-partum struggles, wound up with a silver medal in the finals. She was disappointed to miss the gold, but her sons remained positive: When she told them she lost, they said, "No you didn't mommy."

After daughter Jordyn surprisingly failed to qualify for the all-around gymnastics finals, Rita tweeted that all she wanted was to give her daughter a huge hug. (With tight security, a virtual embrace was all she could manage.) She then wrote a moving blog post that gave an incredible insight into the ups and downs of being the mom of an Olympian, including how she cried "probably harder than I ever have in my life, for about 2 hours" after the loss. Though some questioned whether Jordyn would be mentally strong enough to perform in the team finals, she came through and helped her team to a gold medal.

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Captain of the gold medal winning women's soccer team, Rampone is also mom to girls Rylie, 6, and Reece, 2. The soccer team faced Japan in a rematch of last year's World Cup final, which Japan won. Rampone says it's hard for her older daughter to watch soccer games: "She's so emotional. When we go down (in goals) there are tears in the stands."

Gold medal winning Candace Parker of the women's basketball team says this Olympics—her second—is about daughter Lailaa, 3. "This Olympics is really for her. It will be a great experience for her to look back at this when she's old enough. This time four years ago she wasn't even a thought. … It means a lot for her to be here with me."

In her second Olympics, Tayyiba won her second silver medal in indoor volleyball. Mom to AJ, 2, she says this is her last Games. “I love it, but I love my son more and I want to be there with him through all the special moments.”

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