I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.
I just want kids to have a chance to go and try an Olympic sport. Every kid has a bike - that's how I started, and one kid coming along and giving it a go could make that journey to the Olympics.