However, last summer, she was called out by fans for her 'trout mouth' after she looked almost unrecognizable during a telecast of the Women's Gymnastics Olympic Trials that took place in July.
Luckily for Douglas, most viewers will remember her unbelievable run to the individual all-around gold back in 2012, and not the embarrassing mishap on the unforgiving balance beam.
She seemed to have an explanation for her rapid transformation as many of her fans have wondered how she went from zero to a hundred in a year.
After it all happened, it was such a whirlwind.
As she jumped into the air into a split, she threw her head back to demonstrate her flexibility, and a photographer happened to snap her at exactly the right moment.
Despite her heroic comeback, Downie's neck-first fall still makes our list of embarrassing gymnast pictures! One way the mens rea can be established is by determining the search terms a suspect used to obtain the images.