It would have been understandable for Gabby Douglas to quit gymnastics after 2012. When you have won the Olympic all-around, lined up millions of dollars in endorsements and will never again have a 16-year-old's body … well, why go on?
Simple. Inside, she is little different from the 9-year-old who thought about someday competing in the Olympic Games.
Even in London, Douglas said, her thought was: "I want to do this again."
Since those Olympics, Douglas has changed residences, agents and coaches. She is not even the same size.
She said he has grown to 5-2½, or 3½ inches taller than she was three years ago.