Rosie Maclennan shows up at the CBC Sports offices for our interview unaccompanied and without fanfare. "I'm a little bit early," she says in a text message. "Don't rush though, I'm happy to do a little reading until you're ready for me." The two-time Olympic trampoline champion has arrived to reflect on her career and talk about why she's decided that now is the time to retire from competitive sport.
MacLennan, 34, has also just returned from the world championships in Sofia, Bulgaria where she is the athlete representative on the International Gymnastics Federation [FIG].
From here, she'll head back to Stanford University in California in order to complete her studies toward an MBA. There's a lot to consider when you try to measure up everything this diminutive, yet powerful, woman has done and continues to do.
Rosie, as most affectionately refer to her, has been flying through the stratosphere and, at times, under the radar on the Canadian sporting landscape for a long time. WATCH | Scott Russell sits down with Rosie Maclennan: She's that rare athlete who has competed at four Olympic Games.