I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.

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

I feel like if you compare the commentary, what's covered with female athletics, as with men. On any given day, if a guy competes, you're going to critique his technique and his performance, training. With a girl, you don't do the same thing. You might mention a little bit of that, but you're also going to get what she was wearing, how she performed, what she looked like. I feel like it should be the same.

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 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.

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

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.