Hot! Nastia Liukin Retires From Gymnastics With No Regrets All San Antonio

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During the woman program at Sunday's Olympic Trials, Nastia Liukin undergone a nasty fall. The 22-year-old gymnast from Plano had been doing one last manage from your Olympics, and it did not end well.

But that isn't what she'll bear in mind from her previous competitors considering the national team.

"I've experienced a pair of substantial moments in this employment which can be for the very top," said Liukin a number of times later. "It had been profitable which all-around at the Beijing Olympics, and ?t had been acquiring of which ranking ovation in San Jose this particular previous weekend."

Fans at the particular Olympic Trials acknowledged in which this kind of seemed to be probably the idea intended for Liukin, and so they cheered for her a decade on the national team, and also your girlfriend rare metal medal on the 2008 Olympics. Liukin picked up rare metal with regard to your all-around, and also put in four much more medals, three silvers and a bronze, this year..

"I'm absolutely wanting to get over it with my own life along with causing the sport of gymnastics, the actual competitive game involving gymnastics," Liukin said. "I posess zero regrets at all. It's been recently a fantastic journey."

At 22, Liukin is "over the actual hill" (her words), but she'll stay included in gymnastics. Liukin might be throughout London for the games as the sportsperson representative for the Federation connected with International Gymnastics. She as well continues involved with her very own collection connected with leotards.

"That's a thing this I adore to do mainly because I've made my own , personal leotards from the moment I was 12 ages old," said Liukin. "To see little females working close to from the work out center using my label about their own leotards is really neat."

WOGA gymnastics in Plano is usually where Liukin spent innumerable working hours training, much and so in which the girl couldn't think your girlfriend second home. She regarded the item her first.

"It's house to me," your lover said. "I spent added time these than I ever before have at by myself house. The timeframe - blood, sweat, tears - everything."

Now she's ready to transfer with that will higher education with New York University around January. After that, she will not know.

But there is no skepticism she will stretch of land on her feet.

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