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.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

The energy story is not done yet.

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.