I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.