I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
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.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
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.
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.
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
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 have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.
I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.
I need to learn how to face challenges.
I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
