20-Year-Old Gymnastics Star Turns Pain Into Power With Comeback Victory After Forced Withdrawal From Paris Olympics

20-Year-Old Gymnastics Star Turns Pain Into Power With Comeback Victory After Forced Withdrawal From Paris Olympics

At just 20 years of age, this Japanese gymnastics phenom has lived through a controversy that would have crushed many careers before they even began. Once viewed as Japan’s most promising young gymnast, the reigning national champion found herself at the center of a storm last summer, not for anything that happened inside the gym, but for a decision made outside it. With the Olympic Games in Paris just days away, she was dismissed from the Japan…