1.   All the years of hard work as an elite gymnast often made her feel like gymnastics was a job.

2.   He has been conducting training camps for the elite gymnasts at his Texas ranch all year.

3.   Many elite gymnasts have to spend their formative years living away from home, near their training centers.

4.   Most elite gymnasts suffer some form of injury during childhood or adolescence, ranging from minor sprains to repeated fractures, premature osteoporosis and even spinal deformities.

5.   Svetlana Boginskaya was never your typical elite gymnast.

6.   That means visiting clubs from Pennsylvania to Ohio to Nevada to California to check on the elite gymnasts.