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Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Gabby Douglas was excited to
take part in her first workout since
last August. This promising workout
marks the first step in her attempt to
make the U.S. Olympic team for the
2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Douglas likely will spend the next few
months conditioning and seeing
whether there’s enough time for her
to pull off a comeback before the Rio
Olympics in 2016.
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of training, but what she does mind
is being away from her family, who
live in another state from where
she trains. She is extremely close
with her mother, two older sisters
and older brother, and she has
been open about how hard it was
to be separated from them while
she trains in Iowa. But Douglas has
learned over the years that she
must make sacrifices in order to
achieve her dreams.
“I leaned, down the road, to keep
fighting and never give up your passion because you don’t want to
have any regrets.
Sports critics say that comebacks are notoriously tough for gymnasts, who can
feel as if they’re starting from scratch
after just a few days out of the gym. But
if there’s anyone who can pull it off, it’s
Douglas, who went from an unknown to
the Olympic Champion in less than two
years. She won six medals at the last two
Summer Games, three of them gold.
Douglas, who turned 18 on Dec 31, has
said repeatedly that she wants to compete in Rio.
Douglas doesn’t mind the hard work
I learned how to be tougher. My skin
got a little thicker. During the Olympics
I was dealing with a lot of pressure.
We’re going to have those moments
when we’re pressured, when everyone’s watching. My experience at the
Olympics definitely changed me for the
better,’ says Douglas. We wish her well
and expect to see her competing in Rio
in 2016. God’s Blessings!