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Personal Narrative: My Dream Of Becoming An Olympian

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to make it to the Olympics? From personal experience, I can tell you one thing about it. That one thing is that it takes hard work and dedication. From the beginning, things in my life were never handed to me. I was disciplined, and I never expected to get anything right away. My perseverance, my success, and also the journey I had to take to bring home the gold will hopefully motivate others to chase their dreams. Before I could achieve my dream of being an Olympian, I had to put in lots of hard work and sacrifice. To give you some backstory, I was born to a woman who couldn’t take care of me (Biles and Buford 25). Nobody knows that I am in gymnastics right now because of a field trip I took in school when I fell in love with the gym and the overwhelming sense of joy that it brought me (Biles and Buford 46). When I got older and I was going into highschool, I was still in love with the sport, but my schedule got crazy. In August, …show more content…

All throughout my elite career, I was a top gymnast who was constantly winning, but I never thought about the Olympics as a goal until I saw my name in the first place spot at World’s (Biles and Buford 169). Following my big win at World’s, I told my brother that I was determined to go to the Olympics and after winning two more World Championships, I continued to train nonstop (Biles and Buford 174). Competition after competition, I continued to win, and all of my success had finally brought me to the Olympic Trials in San Jose, California when my name, along with Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Laurie Hernandez, and Gabby Douglas, was announced to the team that would travel to Rio and compete in the 2016 Olympic Games (Biles and Buford 222). After we were named the 2016 Rio Olympics team, training went into full swing and we were ready for

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