Team USA Gymnast Jordan Chiles Is Heading to Paris—Here's What She's Packing
glamour.com, she was helping her team secure a silver medal for the United States. Not bad for a 19-year-old “nobody” (her word). And now, at 23, as she heads to Paris for her second Olympic cycle, Chiles is more than ready to showcase a different kind of competitor.“A lot of people do see me as, ‘You were so young!’ Yes, I was 19 years old last Olympics, but I'm 23 now and in the five-year time span, I'm different,” she tells Glamour. “A lot can change.
A lot can happen just within your own life."This new outlook came from Chiles' own personal journey since Tokyo, which has helped put things into perspective. “I lost two people in my life,” she says. “I had to figure out how to navigate everything and continue to be the person I am.
I dealt with things in college. There's a lot not everybody can see or can listen to. I'm going to just keep being me, and if people want to follow and understand, they can, but if they don't, I'm just going to keep walking forward because there's no point of me going back.
I'm going to be the best version of myself every single day, whether it's a bad day, a good day.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Having an Olympics under her belt certainly doesn't hurt either.
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