Aly Raisman

If they do really well, they might not know who they are outside of their sport because that's what they've been doing their entire life.

And then if they don't do well, I think it's really hard if you don't have the support or the sort of like mental preparation if you don't do well to know that you're more than just your result and like everyone is human.

It's really, I think, hard to accept that.

So I always –

feel for athletes when I'm watching like I get nervous even when I don't know people or even when I see a gymnast from another country like of course I want everyone to do well and obviously again rooting for the US team but even if I see a gymnast from another country like not do well I just feel so sad for them because it you put so much into it and I think so many athletes they're worth

really wanted me to stay in public school.

And I'm actually really glad that they did.

I mean, everyone's on their own path.

And to your point, a lot of my teammates were homeschooled.

And so I feel like everyone has

different journey of what works for them but for me it was so important that I could go to school and have that balance and I can remember I would train six days a week four to seven hours every other day except Sunday I was off but then 2016 when I was done with high school I would sometimes go in on Sunday on my day off so I was I'm still

Exhausted.

I'm still exhausted from it.

Sometimes people, when I tell them that they're like, that's not bad.

I'm like, yeah, it is.

It was bad, but it was really exhausting.

It was exhausting.

I'm like still recovering from that, which we, we can get to after, but I can remember I would train in the morning and I,

I would then like literally be like covered in chalk and like go right to school.

Like I was so self-conscious because I'd like be like trying to like wash my body, like really quickly go to school, trying to look cute for boys.