As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

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

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

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

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

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.