Olympic Silver Medal

Chelsea Memel has been one of the rocks of USA Gymnastics

and a huge fan favorite throughout her long and decorated career.

The 2005 world champion is best known for her daring work on uneven bars

and unusual almost circular circular skills on balance beman floor.

Memel, who recently became a breve judge, announced her retirement earlier summer following

the U.S. Classic.

Chelsea, it is a pleasure to have you on the show.

I'm just going to start off with the $10,000 question.

You look absolutely fabulous on tour.

Are you officially retired?

Yes. Yeah, but yeah, I've been having a lot of fun though.

It's been fun to perform the skills that I love to do. Okay, and after what happened at the U.S. Classics earlier this summer,

did you feel kind of forced into retirement?

We all know that you wanted to keep going through nationals, through trials, and hopefully make something happen for London, but it just wasn't in the cards, it seems like.

Yeah, I mean, it wasn't, and it was a little bit, I don't know if I'd use the workforce but it wasn't like it

was kind of out of my control I obviously had a very bad competition and it happens, but it is a U.S. Classic.

It's not, you know, the biggest stage you're competing on.

It's the first meet of the season.

I think you should be allowed to have mistakes because you're not supposed to be in top form in the beginning of the year.

You're supposed to be in the best shape and doing the best you can do closer towards you know trials in the olympics.

And afterwards the media were kind of told that you and your father, your coach, were cognizant of the requirement

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