Our top 25 countdown continues, coming in at number 15 Olympic gold medalists and my fellow Jersey girl, Lori Hernandez.

Lori was just 16 years old when she won Olympic gold.

Her incredible talent, her You Got This Pep Talk, and our contagious smile, they were suddenly everywhere.

Then Lori decided to step away from gymnastics.

What has stayed with me from this conversation is Lori's unpacking of the emotional trauma she'd experienced at the hands

of people she once trusted and her commitment to getting gymnastics to be a better, safer sport.

Lori, take me back to the moment where you fell in love with gymnastics.

Ooh. I mean, before I even started, I was at home and I originally did ballet when I was three,

but I think if you can't tell, I'm not really a kid who can, like, sit still, really.

So at three, to do something as serious as ballet was a little tough, but they told me that they would give me sugar cookies if I paid attention.

So I stayed for two more years.

And then when I was five, I was kind of coming home from a practice or a rehearsal.

And I saw two gymnasts on the TV.

I thought they looked so cool.

I didn't know what they were doing was possible.

And I kind of just looked at my mom and I was like, I want to be just like them.

My mom was like, oh, okay.

And she put me in.

And I just, I loved doing it. I didn't know what I was doing, but I loved doing it. And there was a lot of energy that was happening and it was like a good place to put it.

We all watched you and cheered for you and we see the triumph and the glory. What is it we don't see?

Ooh. You guys didn't see a lot of things because what's interesting to me is that a lot of people,

most people, know me from the Olympics.

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