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Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I didn't want people to think of me as someone who wasn't impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that's a huge accomplishment, and I was so happy. It was more about me just being not impressed with falling at the Olympics in my last event.