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

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.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

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.

I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.