Simona Castro didn’t expect to go to the Olympics, never mind be a trailblazer for gymnastics in Chile. She was the first Chilean gymnast to compete in the Olympic Games (London 2012) alongside Tomas Gonzalez, and gymnastics in her country has been on an uptick since. In this interview with Better Late, Simona talks about focusing on big skills over big goals when she was young, how college gymnastics made her a better athlete, and how she’s training for the Tokyo Olympics as a 31-year-old in the middle of a pandemic.