Breaking Through My Limits

Summary

Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete
who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic
gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. Despite injury, she competed
at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and retired from the sport at the age
of twenty-one as one of the top ten gymnasts in the world.



Her incredible story is one of struggle and strength. Through it all, her
family and friends watched the sport consume her; and every person that came
into her life was affected by the constant fight for perfection, and the
mental and physical exhaustion. Those who had the strength never left her
side. And when the dust settled, a woman emerged who was stronger than she
ever thought she could be. Reflecting back on her life as "Alex the
Gymnast," Alexandra takes a deeper look on who she was during her
career, who she had to be, and how this made her the person she is today.