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Laurie Hernandez’s Olympic Comeback Failed. But That Might Be Her Biggest Victory
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glamour.comwanted them,” she says. She became the youngest competitor to ever win and wrote, not one, but two New York Times bestselling books. “There was so much life experience outside of the sport that I was being offered,” she says. “I was like, yes, put me in, that's what I want.”She also began to process the toll gymnastics had taken on her.
While she was grabbing opportunities to define herself outside of gymnastics, the sport was in the midst of a reckoning over a documented culture of abuse. (Hernandez of emotional abuse by a former coach in 2020.) In the midst of all that, Hernandez realized in 2018 she wasn’t ready to walk away from gymnastics forever—but she did have notes.
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