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Gabby Douglas Says She'll Be Training at Chow's Gymnastics Soon

The gold-medal winner from the 2012 London Olympics said on "Today" that she'll be in West Des Moines soon to start training for the 2016 games.

For nearly a year Gabby Douglas has been a media darling: she's walked red carpets, performed with Alicia Keys at that VMAs, and last weekend's White House correspondents dinner.

But, play time is about to end, the gold-medal gymnast from the 2012 London Olympics said in an NBC "Today" show interview Monday morning. Douglas said in a few weeks she will rejoin her host family in West Des Moines and return to Chow's Gymnastics, to begin training for the 2016 Rio De Janiero games.

"I am really excited to get back in the swing of things. It's definitely going to be difficult because I've been out of the gym. I'm really going to be sore," she told NBC's Savannah Guthrie.

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Douglas was the first American gymnast to be a team and individual all-around gold medalist last summer, said The Grio website.

Her second book, Raising the Bar, comes out today, and Douglas described as a scrapbook of her post Olympics career. Her first book,Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith, chronicled her journey from training at the age of 6 to her triumph in London in 2012, the website says.

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“A lot of people wanted to know the ‘life of Gabby Douglas,’” Douglas told Today Show host Savannah Guthrie.

"I love getting dolled up," the teen said of her red carpet events.


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