The Olympics: all my dreams came true in one place.
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The Olympics: all my dreams came true in one place.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗
I hope the happiest moment is still ahead of me.
I am happiest right now. Things are going really well – my professional life, my personal life, my family life.
Anywhere with her, while she lived.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
My parents: they raised me to be the best I can be.
I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat, work on my mindfulness. And I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job and I didn't want to risk the team a medal for kind of my screw ups because they've worked way too hard for that. So I just decided that those girls need to go in and do the rest of the competition.
Picking up dog poop at home: my sister and I used to take turns.
Overthinking about the future.
Literally can not tell up from down. It's the craziest feeling ever. Not having an inch of control over your body. What's even scarier is since I have no idea where I am in the air, I also have NO idea how I am going to land. Or what I am going to land on. Head/hands/feet back…
Yeah, I say put mental health first because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. So it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are rather than just battle through it.
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