Jordyn Wieber Video Interview, U.S. Olympic Gymnast

Jordyn Wieber, the 17-year-old artistic gymnast, came into the 2012 Olympic games with a specific goal in mind. Though Wieber has had much success individually — she won the all-around gold medal at the 2011 Gymnastic World Championships in Tokyo — this summer Wieber was focused on the U.S. gymnastics team as a whole. “To represent USA would be such an honor and our first priority would be the team competition, so getting the team gold would be the first goal,” remarks Wieber in an exclusive interview with Uinterview.

Wieber, who was born in Michigan, began gymnastics at a young age. “I first started when I was about four. My mom and dad kinda put me in gymnastics because they noticed I had a lot of muscle definition and they thought it would be a good fit just ’cause I was strong and then when I was about six or seven, I started competing,” Wieber told us.

Though Wieber has high expectations for this summer’s Olympic games in London, she isn’t going to let the pressure affect her. “But I’ve learned to just calm down and really just kinda, like I said, get in my zone and just do what I know how to do.”