At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.
My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.
I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.