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"Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas has revealed that she was bullied while growing up in Virginia.  In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Oprah&amp;#039;s Next Chapter, the 16-year-old gold medallist admitted that she felt &amp;quot;isolated&amp;quot; in her local gym and was treated poorly by her fellow athletes.    &amp;quot;One of my teammates was like, &amp;#039;Can you scrape the bar?&amp;#039; And they were like, &amp;#039;Why doesn&amp;#039;t Gabby do it, she&amp;#039;s our slave?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Douglas recalled. &amp;quot;I definitely felt isolated, I felt, why am I deserving this? Is it because I&amp;#039;m black? Those thoughts would go through my mind. I felt like I was bullied and isolated from the group, and they treated me not how they would treat the other teammates.&amp;quot; Douglas eventually convinced her mother to move the family to Des Moines, Iowa, where she began training at Liang Chow&amp;#039;s gym.  NBC, which aired the Olympics in the USA, was recently forced to apologise for what many saw as a racist move when it aired a monkey commercial immediately following the teen&amp;#039;s gold medal win in the Women&amp;#039;s All-Around final.  Douglas was also congratulated by Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 for her &amp;quot;inspiring&amp;quot; performance at the London Games.  Watch Gabby Douglas&amp;#039;s gold medal-winning floor exercise from the 2012 London Olympics below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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