"I hope to make my seventh Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and seven is my favorite number," said the 39-year-old, who won won a vault silver medal at the Asian Games.
Influenced more or less by the foot injury during the training, she failed to beat DPK Korea's Hong Un-jong, who grabbed the vault gold from her at Beijing Olympics. The bronze medal went to Vietnam's Phan Thi Ha Thanh.
"Age is just a number and I keep doing it not for a living but because I love the sport. When I come to the podium I feel like a fish in the water," she said.
Chusovitina made her international debut in 1987 for the Soviet Union, before many of her current rivals were even born. Following the dissolution of the USSR, she represented the Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 Olympic Games and later began competing for Uzbekistan.
In 2002 her son Alisher was diagnosed with leukaemia, so her family moved to Germany where he could receive treatment. Chusovitina won a silver medal for Germany at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She returned to Uzbekistan in 2013.
XI'AN, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- China launched a new program Friday to help address poverty caused by illness.
The program, which will last until February, aims to use the slack farming season and the Spring Festival holiday when migrant workers return home Uomo Salomon Fell Raiser Trail Mountain Nere Grigie Italia , to figure out how many poor people have diseases and keep them updated with new policies, according to Xia Gengsheng from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Xia said that more than 50 percent of impoverished residents in 10 Chinese provinces fell into poverty due to illnesses, at the end of 2016.
China aims to lift all people above the poverty line -- per capita annual income of 2,300 yuan (348 U.S. dollars) -- in rural areas by 2020. Strong efforts have been made in helping the rural poor suffering from illnesses.
More than 4.2 million poor patients with serious or chronic diseases have been treated since last year