00:00Most people think I'm not human, but I feel like I go through some of the same problems
00:21they do.
00:22So I feel like if they can relate, then they can kind of think I'm normal.
00:51I kind of knew I wanted to be a gymnast from the start.
00:54It's the very first sport I tried, and I had a lot of fun doing it, but I think gymnastics
00:58found me.
01:22I think one of my greatest strengths as a competitor is whenever I compete, I love to
01:27have fun, and I think that's what helps me and sets me apart.
01:39At the beginning of the year, my mom would always make me write down goals on a piece
01:42of paper and take it to her.
01:45And so that's kind of how I always was very well-driven, because I always had the next
01:50goal in mind.
02:21The Olympic experience for me just kept getting better and better, like we won team gold,
02:31and then we brought home a couple more medals, and then I got to meet Zach, and then I got
02:35to carry the flag, and it was just a huge honor.
02:51It's almost more normalized now, going to therapy and having anxiety, and I think being
02:56in the public eye, almost a lot of us have it.
03:51I was mad, I was annoyed, I was upset, because I felt like I had just been so prepared.
04:14Never in my life have I been that prepared, so I felt like just it sucked for me personally.
04:21I put mental health first, because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your
04:40sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to, so it's okay sometimes to
04:45even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself, because it shows how strong of
04:49a competitor and person that you really are, rather than just battle through it.
