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

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

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

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from

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.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.