Tumbling effortless across the floor, Larrissa Miller moves with the grace of a ballerina.
She seems untouched by the weight of expectation as Australia's sole artistic gymnastics representative at the upcoming Rio Olympics.
For the first time since 1988, Australia is not sending a gymnastics team to the Olympics, after falling just outside of the qualification cut off.
Instead, the nation secured individual quota spots in artistic, rhythmic and trampoline categories, leaving athletes to compete for each position.
"I think about (being sole representative) that a little bit but I just have to try and shut that down and not think about it, and just go in there and do what I was selected to do," she said.
"I was selected for a reason so obviously I did something right."
Australia's Larrissa Miller competes on the floor exercise during the 2015 World Gymnastic Championships (AAP) Source: AAP
Miller said the situation created some unease within the tight-knit gymnastics family.
"We're all a really close team and that was one of the challenges going into Olympic trials, that we are all so close and we knew only one athlete was going to make the spot so that was difficult," she said.
Miller was chosen on the back of previous successes, which included two Commonwealth Games silver medals, an Australian champion and appearances in world championship finals.
But, the choice was anything but easy, according to her coach John Hart.
"There's a lot of girls who deserve to be there as well and so we'll respect the efforts they put in and it just makes them extra special in some ways," hart said.
"Everyone is just so proud of Larrissa and all her achievements and the journey she's undertaken to get here and she has the whole country behind her."
Miller will compete on the floor and the uneven bars, but without a team waiting on the sidelines, it will be a different experience at this Olympics.
"Getting off the podium and not having a team to go down and celebrate with will be really different, but at the same time I just have to do my job and do the routines I know how to do but it's going to be a challenge," she said.
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Miller made her Olympic debut at the London Games in 2012, an experience she's looking to improve upon this time around.
"Everything was new and crazy, I didn't know what was happening," she said.
"I feel like this time I'm going to be more goal focused and go in there knowing what I want to achieve."
And what she wants is a shot at a podium finish, to finally break Australia's Olympic medal drought in artistic gymnastics.
