My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

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

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.