superstar girl : Nastia Liukin

Nastia Liukin is going to have a very busy life outside of gymnastics. That doesn’t mean she’s putting gymnastics out of her life.

The Olympic all-around champion is considering competing at next year’s world championships in London.

“I’d love to stay around,” Liukin said Wednesday. “Gymnastics has meant so much to me. I’m going to be busy, but I’d love to keep going.

“I feel there’s one more medal at worlds I can win to give me 10. I missed out an all-around medal last year, so I kind of feel like it’s meant to be.”

Liukin is 18 and would be 22 for the 2012 Olympics, also in London. That can be ancient in women’s gymnastics. She also has dozens of opportunities outside sports—and millions of dollars in earnings—awaiting her back home.

American gymnast Nastia Liukin finished the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday by taking home more medals than any other gymnastics competitor and surpassing the haul of her own father in the process.

Her silver medal on the beam was her fifth prize of the Games, after taking silvers in the asymmetric bars and the team event, a bronze in the floor exercise and the gold medal in the women's all-round.

"To leave here with five Olympic medals, it just, it's amazing and it's more than a dream come true. I would have never dreamed this. It's been the experience of a lifetime and nothing could top this," she told reporters.

Her haul tops that of her father and coach, Valery, who won two golds and the two silvers at the 1988 Seoul Olympics competing for the Soviet Union.

"The only thing he can say to me is 'I have two golds'," she said,

Asked if she was thinking about beating his medal count as she saw the results flash up on the board, Liukin said: "Obviously that's not something he was thinking about but I sure was thinking about it."