Who was the actress who helped an Olympic gymnast?

[um]

I recall that it must have been in the earlier 2000s when the Summer Olympic games had a female gymnast competing who was "much" older than the other female gymnasts, 25-years-old, and the gymnast had training fees and had to work a job (besides spend hours in gymnastic training) to pay for the training fees and some actress stepped up to pay for those training fees.
Who was that actress. Also what was the name of the gymnast?
Also there was an actress who once competed in Olympic archery ?
Who was that?

[opus]

Originally Posted by um

I recall that it must have been in the earlier 2000s when the Summer Olympic games had a female gymnast competing who was "much" older than the other female gymnasts, 25-years-old, and the gymnast had training fees and had to work a job (besides spend hours in gymnastic training) to pay for the training fees and some actress stepped up to pay for those training fees.
Who was that actress. Also what was the name of the gymnast?
Also there was an actress who once competed in Olympic archery ?
Who was that?

Not quite sure which gymnastics story you’re looking for, but the archery one is Geena Davis, who was in the U.S. Qualifying Trials in 2000 but never made the Olympics team.