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There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

I don't want to be considered a gymnast anymore.

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

I have always been a huge fan of gymnastics.

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.