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Published: 23:18 BST, 2 July 2015 | Updated: 12:19 BST, 3 July 2015
A gymnast's body is often one of the most battered, bruised and overworked within the world of sport - but that doesn't mean it can't be displayed with pride.
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman, 21, who won three medals for Team USA at the 2012 Games, has once again solidified her title as one of the country's top athletes, as she joins a host of sportsmen and women in posing nude for ESPN's famous Body issue , showing off her incredibly muscular form while taking on tough gymanstic poses - all while in the buff.
'Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them,' Aly told the magazine. 'I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am.'
Showing off: 21-year-old Gymnast Aly Raisman, who won two gold and one bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics, posed nude in ESPN The Magazine's upcoming Body Issue
Talented: Aly was only 18 when she gained fame for her incredible skill at the Games, landing three medals for the Floor, Balance Beam and Team events
'You can always spot the gymnast,' Aly, who competed in the 16th season of Dancing with the Stars after she returned from London, added. 'They are so ripped and so strong. Even if I was just wearing a T-shirt, my arms would just be more muscular than other girls'. If we were playing sports, I would just crush them.'
ESPN's The Body Issue, which debuted in 2009, features interviews alongside stunning nude photography and has since become one of the most prestigious media events for world-class athletes.
Previous issues have featured swimming champions Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, tennis stars Venus Williams and Serena Williams, and soccer player Hope Solo.
Now Aly, who won the gold for Floor Exercise and the London 2012 Olympics, is joining the list of high-achievers by losing her ever-present leotard and posing on a balance beam - which is actually a bugbear piece of equipment for Aly.
Although she won the bronze in the individual event at the Games, a mistake on her Beam routine during the All-Around competition cost Aly, then 18, a medal.
Joining the ranks: Aly is one of several top athletes posing in the buff for the magazine issue, which has previously included sport stars like Michael Phelps and Venus Williams
Eye on the prize: The Olympic gymnast missed out on the medal podium at the 2012 Games after being marked down on her balance beam routine
Beaming: Despite the All-Around disappointment, Aly did pick up the gold medal for the Floor event
Speaking to the magazine, Aly revealed that this fact has somewhat taken away from her other Olympic triumphs thanks to her perfectionist nature.
'That kind of pisses me off -- I always think that it's never good enough. I almost fell and put my hand down; it was stupid, I never make that mistake on the beam,' she said.
'I'll have a second chance at it, but I think about it all the time. I wish I didn't have to learn that valuable lesson at the Olympics.'
Elsewhere in the interview Aly also reveals how she once 'pulled a Jennifer Lawrence' by taking a tumble down the stairs at the Golden Globes.
'I'm really clumsy,' she said. 'I can do anything on a 4-inch-wide beam, but when I walk down the street in sneakers, I'll trip and fall on my face.'
Aly also took home the Team gold along with teammates - the other members of the team, christened the 'Fierce Five' - Jordyn Wieber, Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross.
Fierce Five: Aly (second from right) also picked up the Team gold alongside USA teammates Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas (L-R)
A change of scene: During her time off from competition following the 2012 Games, Aly competed on the 2013 season of Dancing With the Stars
Treading the boards: Aly and her Dancing With the Stars partner Mark Ballas (pictured) placed fourth in the competition
Unfortunately the Fierce Five will not be reuniting in 2016, as Jordyn decided to retire after withdrawing from competition following the 2012 Games. Even though she gained the Team gold, Jordyn suffered a grave disappointment at the Games when she failed to make the All-Around final after being beaten by two of her teammates, despite going into the competition as World Champion.
Coming back to competition after the Games did not come easy to Aly either, as she explained to the magazine.
'After 2012, I took a full year off. Gabby and I did. We needed a break,' she said. 'It's just repetitions after repetitions. There's no offseason. But at the same time, you always have to keep your goals in the back of your mind.'
During that year off, Aly enjoyed her fame and endorsements, and even competed on the 2013 season of Dancing With the Stars, coming fourth overall.
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Gymnast Aly Raisman bares all as the cover girl for ESPN’s latest , the “Body Issue.” The Olympic gold medalist appears fully nude in an ESPN video, discussing her passion for gymnastics, her intense regimen and the sport that inspires and challenges her.
Rather than titillating or pornographic, the images and accompanying video focuses on the 22-year-old’s remarkable physical strength and feminine, yet muscular physique as she moves through and strikes various poses on the balance beam. Although she displays great agility, and is clearly unclothed, she hardly shows “it all.”
Raisman, who is 5’2 and 115 pounds, recognizes how gymnasts are of different body types, some thin and lithe. Yet she shares how she has come to love her muscles for the strength they give her. As she tells ESPN, “I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I’ve learned to love them. I don’t even think of it as a flaw anymore because it’s made me into the athlete that I am.”
If she makes the US team for the next Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, at 22 Raisman will be the oldest competing gymnast. At the last Olympics she took home two golds and a bronze.
In London she performed her winning floor routine to the crowd-pleasing “Hava Nagila,” and in interviews, told reporters that she felt the 2012 games should have honored the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack that took the lives of Israeli athletes and trainers at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
“If there had been a moment’s silence,” the 18-year-old told the world following her win, “I would have supported it and respected it.”
Back in 2012, the New York Post quoted Raisman’s rabbi praising Raisman’s victory and her “mettle” in remembering the slain Israeli Olympians.
“She is a focused person,” said Rabbi Keith Stern of Temple Beth Avodah in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
“She’s very proud and upfront about being Jewish,” Stern said. “Neither she nor her family explicitly sought to send a message. But it shows how very integrated her Jewish heritage is in everything that she does.
In her ESPN video, Raisman explains the intense pressures involved with training a lifetime for a minute-and-a-half beam routine.
“I work out six days, 32 hours a week for the dream of competing at the Olympics again. I’m always eating healthy, always going to bed early. Everything I put into my body is for the purpose of gymnastics,” said Raisman.
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