Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.

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.

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

Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.

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.

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

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.