I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.
I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.
I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.
I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.
When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.