I went through a rough time with injury at the end of last year. I missed a major competition, which has made the qualifying process for the Tokyo Olympics more difficult.

I hurt my ankle; it wasn’t even too serious; just some minor ligament damage. It was more the timing, just a few days before we were due to fly out for the world championships.

We needed to finish in the top 24 to be certain of qualifying a team for this year’s world championships in Stuttgart – which is the main Olympic qualifying event – so to not be there to help the team was quite stressful. Then to end up coming 25th by an extremely small margin as well, that was tough. Fortunately, we managed to earn the final team place by beating New Zealand at the recent Oceania Championships, which was a big relief.

As gymnasts, we train for five, six hours a day, six days a week, so it can be very mentally straining as well as physically demanding.

I hope through the Lifeline program I can give a bit of an inside view into the struggles that sportspeople can face. To be a voice for that, an ear if someone needs it, and just someone to understand where other people are coming from.