Finding Our Balance

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16-year-old Amalia Blanchard has been training her whole life to make the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team. After years of failing to qualify to elite gymnastics, her hard work finally pays off when she is invited to the national team training camp at the insistence of her coach. Though her routines aren't as polished or pretty as the others, she shocks everyone - including national team coach and former Soviet superstar Vera Malkina - when she unveils a secret weapon that will help her challenge for one of the five spots on the team.Her best friend and training partner 19-year-old Ruby Spencer also desperately wants to make it to Rio. A junior star pegged to lead the 2012 Olympic team to gold medal glory in London, Ruby tore her Achilles at the U.S. Championships two months before the Games, going into a deep depression for two years before working on a comeback. When she made her not-so-triumphant return in 2015, the press said she was "washed up" and would never make another...