Carly Patterson
Carly Patterson
Carly Rae Patterson-Caldwell is an American singer and former artistic gymnast from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is the 2004 Olympic all-around champion and a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGymnast
Date of Birth4 February 1988
CityBaton Rouge, LA
CountryUnited States of America
american-athlete dream great hard
I've been working really hard to go to the Olympics. That's been my dream for my whole life. It would be great to have that dream come true.
american-athlete hard romania
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
american-athlete meet showing
Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
american-athlete
I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
american-athlete gym work
You know, I don't even really remember. I think he just said, 'Good job. Now we're going to get back in the gym and work for Trials.'
american-athlete guess
I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
american-athlete bad best good life meet picking
If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
american-athlete competing good higher trials value wants
She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
american-athlete course
The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.
american-athlete ask best chance goal ready
I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
american-athlete compete last meant time year
It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.
american-athlete feels good
Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
american-athlete
Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
american-athlete best
I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.